Re: [cobalt-users] [raq4] FTP - Admin user denied ?!!?

["_ cbtrussell _" <cbtrussell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff said:
The limitation is a limitation of Unix.  It goes back as far as Unix
does.  You can't belong to more than 32 groups (groups are almost but
not quite the same as sites).

But can you get around it?  YES.

You can have all the sites owned by ONE person, with separate group
membership to give you the false impression of security.

What happens if you rewrite your system privileges to do it this way
(and no, no-one at Cobalt will help you, and probably no unix consultant
either, unless you sign a disclaimer first) is you'll give up ALL
security for the sites.  If you're going to set up all the sites for
you, yourself, this could be a viable alternative, but you'd have to do
it outside the gui; Cobalt/Sun most likely isn't going to make such
insecurity a feature, but they might be willing to implement it for you
at their normal consulting rate.  They'd probably want you to sign a
dislcaimer first, as well; as this is VERY INSECURE.
<snip>

Jeff,

Are you referring to this:

http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2000-March/007344.html

And saying this is a bad idea?

thanks

Brandon

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