Re: Renumber users and groups

2013-08-28 Thread Mark Felder
Can you please file a PR with your findings? That's definitely something we need fixed as mtree is pretty important to the project. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Renumber users and groups

2013-08-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
One last comment, for the records, Those solutions sound pretty handy if I need to move the files at the same time. mtree should do this in-place with minimal fuss as it's just confirming permissions and ownership on all files. I also just thought of an idea I need to benchmark: running mtree

Renumber users and groups

2013-08-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hello, On my system legacy users come with UID starting from 200 upward, and all users come with GID lower that 100. I know it's not a good idea, but consider that some accounts are over 20 years old! This is not too much a problem with FreeBSD as I can renumber the few FreeBSD services that

Re: Renumber users and groups

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Felder
, then vi /etc/groups), and then re-apply the mtree to the entire filesystem. It should find all the files that are now orphaned and fix them to use the new UID/GID that you specified. :) What pitfall should I avoid? Not having a backup :) ___ freebsd

Re: Renumber users and groups

2013-08-21 Thread Frank Leonhardt
to renumber users, but I've noticed tar will restore a backup across hosts and try to resolve user names correctly. tar stores users and groups symbolically and will happily extract them to the correct numerical ID on the new host. All you need do, therefore, is merge the passwd and group files without

Re: Renumber users and groups

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Felder
, Olivier Both tar and rsync are spectacularly clever about this. I've never needed to renumber users, but I've noticed tar will restore a backup across hosts and try to resolve user names correctly. tar stores users and groups symbolically and will happily extract them to the correct

Re: Renumber users and groups

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013, at 11:36, Mark Felder wrote: Those solutions sound pretty handy if I need to move the files at the same time. mtree should do this in-place with minimal fuss as it's just confirming permissions and ownership on all files. I also just thought of an idea I need to

Re: Renumber users and groups

2013-08-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Thank you, Those solutions sound pretty handy if I need to move the files at the same time. mtree should do this in-place with minimal fuss as it's just confirming permissions and ownership on all files. I also just thought of an idea I need to benchmark: running mtree with and without nscd.

Limited repository, packages gzipped in groups.

2011-03-08 Thread Super Biscuit
http://code.google.com/p/powerpc-bits-and-pieces/downloads/list The number of packages are limited; but, there is enough of a base to setup X, have a browser, a window manager and a few others. PowerPC only. You'll have to download such as: ftp

Sudo 1.7.4 and AD groups

2011-01-11 Thread Robert Archer
Hi FreeBSD Folks, I'm using Samba 3.5.6 to authenticate logins and manage access on FreeBSD 8.1. With Sudo 1.7.2, I was able to use Active Directory groups in sudoers(5), but this doesn't seem to work in 1.7.4. Versions: $ uname -a FreeBSD cis-mvl.ml.unisa.edu.au 8.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.1

groups and login shells

2010-12-26 Thread Chris Telting
Just spent some time figuring this out. I needed to create a group and add myself to it. But after I added myself to the group while I could id username my username and get the correct groups if I did a base id or groups the new group wouldn't show up. Not could I access a directory

Re: groups and login shells

2010-12-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/12/2010 17:50, Chris Telting wrote: Just spent some time figuring this out. I needed to create a group and add myself to it. But after I added myself to the group while I could id username my username and get the correct groups if I did a base id or groups the new group wouldn't

adduser and single-user groups

2010-01-27 Thread John
Could someone point me in the direction of enlightenment with regard to the value add of the group per user approach that adduser uses? Is that a FreeBSD thing, or a *BSD thing, or a unix-like-universe thing, or what? Thanks! -- John Lind j...@starfire.mn.org

Re: adduser and single-user groups

2010-01-27 Thread Glen Barber
when read/write access to files and directories is determined. This, of course, can be overridden with the '-g' flag, changing the default group, and additionally with '-G' to add to several groups. Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: adduser and single-user groups

2010-01-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 27/01/10 19.05, John wrote: Could someone point me in the direction of enlightenment with regard to the value add of the group per user approach that adduser uses? Is that a FreeBSD thing, or a *BSD thing, or a unix-like-universe thing, or what? Many systems do this AFAIK. IIRC, the point

Re: adduser and single-user groups

2010-01-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John j...@starfire.mn.org writes: Could someone point me in the direction of enlightenment with regard to the value add of the group per user approach that adduser uses? man adduser; about 60 lines in, there is a whole section titled UNIQUE GROUPS. This is the document you want. -- Lowell

Re: Google groups

2009-06-15 Thread Alexander Best
/mailing.freebsd.questions/topics?lnk Wojciech Puchar schrieb am 2009-06-14: i've been using the mailman interface for a long time now to read the various freebsd mailinglists. recently i found out about Google groups which are great isn't standard interface the simplest? you get it on your mailbox, and you use

Re: Google groups

2009-06-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i've been using the mailman interface for a long time now to read the various freebsd mailinglists. recently i found out about Google groups which are great isn't standard interface the simplest? you get it on your mailbox, and you use .procmailrc to put it into separate folder each mailing

Google groups

2009-06-13 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i've been using the mailman interface for a long time now to read the various freebsd mailinglists. recently i found out about Google groups which are great and a lot better than the mailman interface imo. (no broken search, etc.) however a lot of mailinglists seem to be missing

Re: Groups problems

2009-05-04 Thread Maciej Milewski
Monday 04 May 2009 16:24:33 Shaun Friedle napisał(a): Hi, I seem to have a weird problem with groups, it seems like the system doesn't notice that I am in certain groups when it comes to file permissions, and if I run groups or id with no arguments it also has some groups missing from

Re: Groups problems

2009-05-04 Thread Armin Pirkovitsch
with groups, it seems like the system doesn't notice that I am in certain groups when it comes to file permissions, and if I run groups or id with no arguments it also has some groups missing from the list, but with my username as an argument it is complete. I've never encountered this before

Groups problems

2009-05-04 Thread Shaun Friedle
Hi, I seem to have a weird problem with groups, it seems like the system doesn't notice that I am in certain groups when it comes to file permissions, and if I run groups or id with no arguments it also has some groups missing from the list, but with my username as an argument it is complete

Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread Old Crankbuster
in this case, and need to enable regular user access to audio, cdrom/dvd read and write, usb access, and network reconfiguration/dialout, games and so forth. I am not seeing such things as plugdev,audio,cdrom in etc/group after initial install. Do I need to manually add such groups and then point

Re: Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread ill...@gmail.com
reconfiguration/dialout, games and so forth. I am not seeing such things as plugdev,audio,cdrom in etc/group after initial install. Do I need to manually add such groups and then point relevant packages to them? Various methods apply (for instance /dev/dspN.n is world writable), man 5 devfs.conf

Re: Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread Polytropon
intend to use the system on a laptop in this case, [...] Typical single user setting. [...] and need to enable regular user access to audio, cdrom/dvd read and write, usb access, and network reconfiguration/dialout, games and so forth. There are several groups that you can add your user

Re: Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread Old Crankbuster
* ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com [2009-05-04 14:39:34 -0400]: Various methods apply (for instance /dev/dspN.n is world writable), man 5 devfs.conf is a good start for some of that. Ah. Thanks. -- Cheers signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread Old Crankbuster
* Polytropon free...@edvax.de [2009-05-04 21:02:29 +0200]: [...] and of course 'wheel'. Why of course? :-) Umm, linuxism habit :-) There are several groups that you can add your user to, but because you're already in wheel, you don't have to (such as the dialer group for ppp

unique groups

2009-02-21 Thread Pieter Donche
FreeBSD adduser creates by default users with GID equal to UID. There is a very short notice in the man page ('UNIQUE GROUPS') from Rod Grimes. Where can a more elaborate argumentation be found on the net? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-21 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 01/20/2009 08:23 PM, Tim Judd wrote: [...] and I recommend against sudo because it's very design is a man-in-the-middle type of scenario, and one typo by the sudo devs can possibly make a mess out of things. I think sudo makes a lazy admin -- too easy to just run in and hit something.

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-21 Thread Clifton Royston
as su. ... I think sudo is a false sense of security. If a user trusts another, and give sudo access, why not give the whole OS to them? Among other reasons, because it allows you to partition privileges and give access for specific users (or groups of users) to specific accounts only

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-21 Thread pete wright
sorry OT and I recommend against sudo because it's very design is a man-in-the-middle type of scenario, and one typo by the sudo devs can possibly make a mess out of things. I think sudo makes a lazy admin -- too easy to just run in and hit something. I think sudo is a false sense of

Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Akenner
Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up. I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I do anyway heh. Anyway, one of the things I forgot about, was that FreeBSD by

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:09:16PM -0500, Akenner wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up. I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I do anyway heh.

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
Akenner wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up. I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I do anyway heh. Anyway, one of the things I forgot about, was

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Akenner slackwarew...@comcast.net: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up. I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I do anyway heh. Anyway, one

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Akenner
Thanks everyone for the replies, much appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Clifton Royston
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:09:16PM -0500, Akenner wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up. I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I do anyway heh.

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Tim Judd
Clifton Royston wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:09:16PM -0500, Akenner wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up. I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I

Companies Will Pay You To Fill Out Surveys Or Participate In Focus Groups

2008-09-03 Thread gloria grant
Companies need your input in order to be successful. They need to know what everyday people want in their products, what they prefer, and what will prompt them to buy the products and services the company offers. This is called market research. By providing companies with this information, you

Re: /etc/groups gone

2008-08-22 Thread DA Forsyth
On 22 Aug 2008 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated about freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 229, Issue 13: Hi, Yesterday night at 1 a.m. I have managed to remove /etc/groups (rm instead of vi, was already sleepying). Luckily only a few groups (2-3) was created earlier. No backup, of course. you

Re: /etc/groups gone

2008-08-22 Thread Polytropon
Just an addition: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:14:39 +0200, DA Forsyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you want to do man rcs and start using RCS to track changes to your important system files. That way, if you delete one you can just check it out of the RCS store. 'backups with history' You can use

/etc/groups gone

2008-08-21 Thread sbremal
Hi, Yesterday night at 1 a.m. I have managed to remove /etc/groups (rm instead of vi, was already sleepying). Luckily only a few groups (2-3) was created earlier. No backup, of course. I believe the file system is still correct, it uses group IDs instead of names (?). Though ls does not show

Re: /etc/groups gone

2008-08-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 21, 2008, at 9:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any better way of rebuilding /etc/groups than guessing and manually adding one-by-one. Can I somehow list all group IDs used by the file system? You should start with /usr/src/etc/group, which is the original version

Re: /etc/groups gone

2008-08-21 Thread John Nielsen
I would start by comparing the contents of /usr/ports/GIDs with the ports you have installed (as listed in /var/db/pkg). You can get a stock group file from src/etc/group. Reinstalling ports will recreate the groups they use (though you could do most of it manually), and you may be on your own

Re: /etc/groups gone

2008-08-21 Thread Paul A. Procacci
John Nielsen wrote: I would start by comparing the contents of /usr/ports/GIDs with the ports you have installed (as listed in /var/db/pkg). You can get a stock group file from src/etc/group. Reinstalling ports will recreate the groups they use (though you could do most of it manually

Re: /etc/groups gone

2008-08-21 Thread Peter Boosten
On 21 aug 2008, at 18:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Yesterday night at 1 a.m. I have managed to remove /etc/groups (rm instead of vi, was already sleepying). Luckily only a few groups (2-3) was created earlier. No backup, of course. I believe the file system is still correct

Re: /etc/groups gone

2008-08-21 Thread Oliver Fromme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday night at 1 a.m. I have managed to remove /etc/groups (rm instead of vi, was already sleepying). Luckily only a few groups (2-3) was created earlier. No backup, of course. Yes, there is a backup. Restore from /var/backups/group.bak. Best regards Oliver

RE: /etc/groups gone

2008-08-21 Thread sbremal
Great help from all of you! Thank you, Balazs Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:43:06 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /etc/groups gone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday night at 1 a.m. I

groups, using www as kline

2008-07-21 Thread Gary Kline
is there a way of modifing etcgroup to let me edit files chown'd www:kline as kline? after all, i am in the wheel and operator group. gary ps: thing i never learned in kindergarten:-) -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thought.org Public

Re: groups, using www as kline

2008-07-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 21, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Gary Kline wrote: is there a way of modifing etcgroup to let me edit files chown'd www:kline as kline? after all, i am in the wheel and operator group. Presuming you are in the kline group also, and that the files are group-writable, you

Re: groups, using www as kline

2008-07-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:08:15AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 21, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Gary Kline wrote: is there a way of modifing etcgroup to let me edit files chown'd www:kline as kline? after all, i am in the wheel and operator group. Presuming you are in the kline

Re: groups, using www as kline

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Mettee
What are the permissions on the files you're trying to edit? 664 would allow owner/group editing, but readonly by world. If it's 644, then only owner can edit, but group/world can read. At 04:05 PM 7/21/2008, you wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:08:15AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 21,

Re: Username groups

2008-04-19 Thread prad
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:00:24 -0400 Jon Radel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other things being equal, it's better to have all users use their own login group and then add them to additional groups as appropriate. jon, i have always been curious about this. why is it better for a user to be in his

Re: Username groups

2008-04-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
prad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:00:24 -0400 Jon Radel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other things being equal, it's better to have all users use their own login group and then add them to additional groups as appropriate. jon, i have always been curious about this. why

Username groups

2008-04-17 Thread Ruel Luchavez
Hello, Can you help me on this... I have a directory in the server this is what is looks like drwxrwx--- 12 root plusmate 512 April 13 14:46 plusmate shared ...this directory is shared in my network, and i dont recieve any complain in any user which can acces to that folder/directory *My

Re: Username groups

2008-04-17 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:19 AM 4/17/2008, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hello, Can you help me on this... I have a directory in the server this is what is looks like drwxrwx--- 12 root plusmate 512 April 13 14:46 plusmate shared ...this directory is shared in my network, and i dont recieve any complain in any user

Re: Username groups

2008-04-17 Thread Jon Radel
plusmater ac06 would give more elegant results. Other things being equal, it's better to have all users use their own login group and then add them to additional groups as appropriate. There are plenty of legitimate reasons not to do this, so you're probably best off remaining consistent with the setup

Re: Username groups

2008-04-17 Thread Ruel Luchavez
hey, the username to windows and in my freebsd server is just the same.. I allready change it many times but still the problem still not solve On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:19 AM 4/17/2008, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hello, Can you help me on

Re: Username groups

2008-04-17 Thread Ruel Luchavez
their own login group and then add them to additional groups as appropriate. There are plenty of legitimate reasons not to do this, so you're probably best off remaining consistent with the setup of the existing users. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Username groups

2008-04-17 Thread Jeff Dickens
Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hello, Can you help me on this... I have a directory in the server this is what is looks like drwxrwx--- 12 root plusmate 512 April 13 14:46 plusmate shared ...this directory is shared in my network, and i dont recieve any complain in any user which can acces to that

Re: Limit on number of groups a user can join

2008-01-16 Thread Bill Vermillion
of groups a user can join On Jan 15, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I made some tries removing him from other groups and I got to the conclusion that it works as long as he is in no more than 15 groups, but breaks when he join the 16th. Is this an hard limit? Can it be extended

Limit on number of groups a user can join

2008-01-15 Thread Andrea Venturoli
other groups and I got to the conclusion that it works as long as he is in no more than 15 groups, but breaks when he join the 16th. Is this an hard limit? Can it be extended? Why this? bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Limit on number of groups a user can join

2008-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 15, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I made some tries removing him from other groups and I got to the conclusion that it works as long as he is in no more than 15 groups, but breaks when he join the 16th. Is this an hard limit? Can it be extended? Why this? This limit

Re: Problem with Groups

2008-01-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:28:17PM +, Andrew Stevens wrote: Hi everybody Freebsd 6.2 sorry this question is a bit thick I know but after getting the usb and cdrom open as root I tried as user and got the following message A security policy in place prevents this sender from

Problem with Groups

2008-01-10 Thread Andrew Stevens
Hi everybody Freebsd 6.2 sorry this question is a bit thick I know but after getting the usb and cdrom open as root I tried as user and got the following message A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file

Re: Problem with Groups

2008-01-10 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:28:17PM +, Andrew Stevens wrote: Hi everybody Freebsd 6.2 sorry this question is a bit thick I know but after getting the usb and cdrom open as root I tried as user and got the following message A security policy in place prevents this sender from

hal and groups

2007-10-20 Thread Roberth Sjonøy
Hello, I wish to use hal to mount my dvd roms and usb mass storages, but I can't find the right groups for my user, so I can use as a normal user, anyone who can help me? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: hal and groups

2007-10-20 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 06:08:08PM +0200, Roberth Sjonøy wrote: Hello, I wish to use hal to mount my dvd roms and usb mass storages, but I can't find the right groups for my user, so I can use as a normal user, anyone who can help me? http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q19 Yuri

setfacl(1) - Can FreeBSD's ACLs contain groups from NT/AD domains ?

2007-08-06 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
Hi all, I have FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Wed Jul 25 authenticating successfully against active directory via samba's winbindd(8). I need to manage samba shares via FreeBSD ACLs and CIFS ACLs. From my reading of setfacl(1) I should be able to set group permissions using the syntax of

RE: setfacl(1) - Can FreeBSD's ACLs contain groups from NT/AD domains ?

2007-08-06 Thread Johan Hendriks
the aforementioned [http://www.techtutorials.net/blogs/index.php?mode=viewuseruser_id=7]. Does anyone know ? As far as i know and the way i do it is leaving the Domain part out just the group name. Wbinfo -g shows the groups if all is ok. Regards, Johan No virus found in this outgoing message

Good synchronisation strategies (especially for the users and groups)?

2007-02-14 Thread Olaf Greve
(if there are better alternatives). Also, I'd like to be able to (safely!) automatically synchronise users and groups that I may add/change/delete on the live server. Regarding the data, the machine is mainly used as a webserver, running PHP, MySQL and some other things. For me, it is totally fine

Re: Good synchronisation strategies (especially for the users and groups)?

2007-02-14 Thread Andrea Venturoli
for you depends much on how you access your data. Is it read-only or read/write? Also, I'd like to be able to (safely!) automatically synchronise users and groups that I may add/change/delete on the live server. I'm using OpenLDAP and nss_ldap for that. Works very well

Re: max number of groups a user can be member of

2006-07-25 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Hi. Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 24), Roberto Nunnari said: Hi everybody. Could anybody tell me the reason why by default FreeBSD limits the number of groups a user can be member of to 16? Compatibility with the NFS protocol. A google search on nfs 16 groups returned a lot

Re: max number of groups a user can be member of

2006-07-25 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Sorry.. In my previous mail, I forgot to say to send replies to my mailbox as well, as I'm not on the list. Thank you. Hi. Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 24), Roberto Nunnari said: Hi everybody. Could anybody tell me the reason why by default FreeBSD limits the number of groups

max number of groups a user can be member of

2006-07-24 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Hi everybody. Could anybody tell me the reason why by default FreeBSD limits the number of groups a user can be member of to 16? Not all servers have 5000k users and today memory is not an issue. Indeed, some servers used just for services have no users apart a few staff users and users to run

Re: max number of groups a user can be member of

2006-07-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 24), Roberto Nunnari said: Hi everybody. Could anybody tell me the reason why by default FreeBSD limits the number of groups a user can be member of to 16? Compatibility with the NFS protocol. A google search on nfs 16 groups returned a lot of hits. http

Re: max number of groups a user can be member of

2006-07-24 Thread Roberto Nunnari
the reason why by default FreeBSD limits the number of groups a user can be member of to 16? Compatibility with the NFS protocol. A google search on nfs 16 groups returned a lot of hits. http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1998/1328.html http://nfsworld.blogspot.com/2005/03/whats-deal-on-16-group-id

Re: max number of groups a user can be member of

2006-07-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 24), Roberto Nunnari said: Thank you Dan. I'll set up a test machine and try a kernel with the limit set to 256. Do you know if that change requires a build world or a buildkernel is enough? libc uses NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS, so a buildworld is recommended. --

kern.ngroups == num. process groups ?

2006-05-23 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, I saw a reference to kern.ngroups on this list and didn't know what it meant. I decided to peek at the source and it seems to me that it is the number of process groups. Is that correct? Thanks in advance, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: kern.ngroups == num. process groups ?

2006-05-23 Thread Colin Percival
Duane Whitty wrote: I saw a reference to kern.ngroups on this list and didn't know what it meant. I decided to peek at the source and it seems to me that it is the number of process groups. Is that correct? No, kern.ngroups is the maximum number of groups to which a user can belong

Re: kern.ngroups == num. process groups ?

2006-05-23 Thread Duane Whitty
Colin Percival wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: I saw a reference to kern.ngroups on this list and didn't know what it meant. I decided to peek at the source and it seems to me that it is the number of process groups. Is that correct? No, kern.ngroups is the maximum number of groups

Groups

2006-04-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I recently tried using the newgrp command (just for kicks) and it aborted killing the window in which I invoked it. I couldn't find a man page for newgrp (though I did find it in O'Reilly's UNIX in a Nutshell). This has led me to question how groups are used in UNIX

Re: Groups

2006-04-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently tried using the newgrp command (just for kicks) and it aborted killing the window in which I invoked it. I couldn't find a man page for newgrp (though I did find it in O'Reilly's UNIX in a Nutshell). This has led me to question how groups

Merging Groups

2006-03-31 Thread Wil Hatfield
U I have a bad habit of not merging the /etc/group file. Can someone send me over the line from your FBSD 6.0 install, for the new audit group? Thanks, -- Wil Hatfield ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: Merging Groups

2006-03-31 Thread Wil Hatfield
Nevermind I got it. audit:*:77: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wil Hatfield Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 8:08 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Merging Groups U I have a bad habit of not merging the /etc/group file

FreeBSD user groups?

2006-03-08 Thread Bruce M . Axtens
Is there anyone using FreeBSD in Perth, WA, Australia? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD user groups?

2006-03-08 Thread David Stanford
Hi Bruce, Have you checked http://www.freebsd.org/usergroups.html#australia yet? -David On 3/8/06, Bruce M. Axtens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone using FreeBSD in Perth, WA, Australia? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Users and groups properly organized?

2006-03-03 Thread Kristian Vaaf
:*:1002:1002::0:0:Hednod:/home/nomad:/usr/local/bin/zsh polvott:*:1003:1003::0:0:Thomas:/home/polvott:/usr/local/bin/zsh speak:*:1004:1004::0:0:Poetry:/home/speak:/usr/local/bin/zsh And groups equally: nobody:*:5: wheel:*:0:root daemon:*:1: operator:*:2:root kmem:*:3: bin:*:4: tty:*:5: news

Re: Users and groups properly organized?

2006-03-03 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin vaaf:*:1001:0::0:0:Kristian:/home/vaaf:/usr/local/bin/zsh nomad:*:1002:1002::0:0:Hednod:/home/nomad:/usr/local/bin/zsh polvott:*:1003:1003::0:0:Thomas:/home/polvott:/usr/local/bin/zsh speak:*:1004:1004::0:0:Poetry:/home/speak:/usr/local/bin/zsh And groups equally

Re: Users and groups properly organized?

2006-03-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Kristian Vaaf wrote: [ ... ] Have you all ever had a look at your /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group? Yes. Most people who edit these files by hand try to keep them in order, but... Stupid question. But notice the user and group identifications being thrown about as if they didn't matter.

Re: I belong to too many groups

2006-01-19 Thread Nathan Vidican
FreeBSD 6 RELEASE onto a hard drive and added two other users, bob and bill. Whilst I was doing this I decided to make root and bob members of ALL the groups in the system. I now find that I am unable to log in as either root or bob nor can I su from bob. I have tried booting to safe mode

I belong to too many groups

2006-01-18 Thread Bob @ Brisbane
a hard drive and added two other users, bob and bill. Whilst I was doing this I decided to make root and bob members of ALL the groups in the system. I now find that I am unable to log in as either root or bob nor can I su from bob. I have tried booting to safe mode but it will still not allow me

Re: I belong to too many groups

2006-01-18 Thread Matt Emmerton
a hard drive and added two other users, bob and bill. Whilst I was doing this I decided to make root and bob members of ALL the groups in the system. I now find that I am unable to log in as either root or bob nor can I su from bob. I have tried booting to safe mode but it will still

Re: Changing maximum number of groups in FBSD - is it feasible?

2005-12-11 Thread Igor Robul
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 09:26:36AM +1030, Ian Moore wrote: So it actually does work! And there's no need to adjust or re-compile any ports, just world and kernel? World, kernel, static linked ports and all ports which use NGROUPS_MAX constant for space allocation. Samba worked fine for me

Re: Changing maximum number of groups in FBSD - is it feasible?

2005-12-09 Thread Ian Moore
On Thursday 08 December 2005 19:00, Igor Robul wrote: On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:48:04PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 12/7/05, Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm toying with the idea of increasing the maximum number of groups a user can belong to on one of my servers

Re: Changing maximum number of groups in FBSD - is it feasible?

2005-12-08 Thread Igor Robul
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:48:04PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 12/7/05, Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm toying with the idea of increasing the maximum number of groups a user can belong to on one of my servers - we have a rather complex organisation and we're

Re: Changing maximum number of groups in FBSD - is it feasible?

2005-12-07 Thread Jon Falconer
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Ian Moore wrote: Hi, I'm toying with the idea of increasing the maximum number of groups a user can belong to on one of my servers - we have a rather complex organisation and we're hitting the 15 group limit for some people. There seems to be differing opinions

Re: Changing maximum number of groups in FBSD - is it feasible?

2005-12-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/7/05, Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm toying with the idea of increasing the maximum number of groups a user can belong to on one of my servers - we have a rather complex organisation and we're hitting the 15 group limit for some people. Have you considered cascading groups

Re: Changing maximum number of groups in FBSD - is it feasible?

2005-12-07 Thread Ian Moore
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 17:41, Ian Moore wrote: Hi, I'm toying with the idea of increasing the maximum number of groups a user can belong to on one of my servers - we have a rather complex organisation and we're hitting the 15 group limit for some people. There seems to be differing

Changing maximum number of groups in FBSD - is it feasible?

2005-12-06 Thread Ian Moore
Hi, I'm toying with the idea of increasing the maximum number of groups a user can belong to on one of my servers - we have a rather complex organisation and we're hitting the 15 group limit for some people. There seems to be differing opinions on how to do this and if it's actually feasible

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