On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Ian Levesque <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 12, 2011, at 12:58 AM, Ian Stokes-Rees wrote: > >> That is a great post, and I'll forward it to Peter who I'm sure will be >> interested. Unfortunately the last paragraph or two describe that even with >> rpc.mountd there is a limit of ~150-200 groups. We'd already be hitting >> that limit with our current system. I need to at least be able to support >> 2000 users, and ideally 10k to 100k. > > Yikes. I see a management nightmare in your future trying to handle this > scenario with ACLs. > > >> I think the chmod u+t,g+t approach is currently the most promising, > > I'm confused: +t adds the sticky bit, which means users in a shared directory > can only delete their own files/dirs. There's no user/group context to the > sticky bit. > > If you mean u+s,g+s (SUID, SGID), I'm not sure that SUID on directories does > what you think it does. I'm pretty sure on Linux it's ignored. Someone > correct me if I'm wrong.
It works for me the last time I checked (which was 60 seconds before I sent this email (just in case something had changed since the last time I did this)). If you have root on a machine its pretty easy to test this in less then a minute... Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
