On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:21:32 -0400, "Douglas A. Tutty"
<dtutty@porchlight.ca> said:
quoted text
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:19:19AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > > I'm running an OpenBSD server with a lot of users and project groups.
> > > Each project has its own group or two to protect it's files from other
> > > users.
>  
> > > How do you guys usually solve this problem when user needs to be member of
> > > more than 16 groups?
> > 
> > Well, there is no solution.  16 was chosen a lot of years ago as a
> > reasonable amount of state to carry around, and that's the standard
> > and we're probably going to stick with it.
> 
> What, then, is the correct way to separate the project files of more
> than 16 projects, where some users will need access to all of the
> groups?

manage your groups better. use ACL's??
no, really, just manage your groups better.