Re: groups

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
11 Sep 1998 21:17:18 +0200

David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com> writes:
> >
> > A program that edits /etc/group.
>
> And a 32-bit gid_t, so that there's enough groups to go round.
> And a filesystem that supports such.
>
And a real database instead of a flat file.

glibc's nscd is a step in the right direction...

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