Re: Making more groups and removing 32 groups limit.

1999-07-08 Thread Sami Dalouche
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 04:42:40PM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: > >OK, you can say that it's the admin task but it would be more clean to do > >this and the admin can't do everything. For example, if the dpkg > >database would be like an email spool, owned by a group called pkg for > >example, ro

Re: Making more groups and removing 32 groups limit.

1999-07-06 Thread Carl Mummert
>OK, you can say that it's the admin task but it would be more clean to do >this and the admin can't do everything. For example, if the dpkg >database would be like an email spool, owned by a group called pkg for >example, root could give the package management to a specific user. >For now, ev

Making more groups and removing 32 groups limit.

1999-07-06 Thread Sami Dalouche
There is about a hundred of devices in /dev (ls /dev/* | wc -l returns me 1016) and debian provides only 40 groups. It shows that an admin doesn't have a fine control of distributing tasks to some other users w/o giving too much power. For example, to give access to a SCSI HD to a particular use