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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Who's behind the UNIX filesystem permission
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:14:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40c91f7f89cb3ea5@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f90648ac-4781-5631-4955-f44575594f87@kilonet.net>

Two things killed off the adoption of groups as a widely-deployed
ACL mechanism:

1) NFS, specifically its limits on the number of supplimentary groups
   the protocol supported,

2) Kernel limits on the number of supplimentary groups associated with
   a process (e.g. NGROUPS_MAX)

--lyndon

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-01 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-01 12:35 Doug McIlroy
2019-08-01 16:22 ` John P. Linderman
2019-08-01 16:35   ` Arthur Krewat
2019-08-02  8:35   ` [TUHS] Additional groups and additional directory permissions arnold
2019-08-02 11:18     ` Tony Finch
2019-08-04  6:40       ` arnold
2019-08-02 12:45     ` Arthur Krewat
2019-08-02 13:06     ` Clem Cole
2019-08-02 13:28     ` Clem Cole
2019-08-02 19:00       ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-08-01 17:01 ` [TUHS] Who's behind the UNIX filesystem permission Nemo Nusquam
2019-08-01 18:26   ` Arthur Krewat
2019-08-01 20:14     ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2019-08-01 21:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-08-01 23:43 Noel Chiappa
2019-08-02  1:03 ` David Arnold
2019-08-02  4:36   ` Rob Pike
2019-08-07  2:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-08-02 14:35 Noel Chiappa
2019-08-02 15:01 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-02 15:17 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-08-02 21:23   ` Dave Horsfall
2019-08-03 12:51     ` Nemo

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