Re: Making more groups and removing 32 groups limit.
>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, even if the admin does
>addgroup pkg
>chown -R root.pkg /var/lib/dpkg
>chmod -R g+....
>dpkg will say that it needs root.
dpkg has to write files to directories owned by root...
>What I say is maybe stupid but it would be really simpler et efficient to
>divide the system into a multitude of groups.
Wait a little while; there is talk of adding ACL features to linux, which
would fix your '32-group' problem.
Carl
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