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
next prev parent 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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