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Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 20:44:09 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Why mkgroup does not list group members?
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On May 13 18:30, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> > I'm shuddering to think of the memory requirements if all gr_mem
> > fields are filled in a bigger company.
> 
> Well, for supplementary groups (which it was supposed to be used for)
> that does not actually look like very overwhelming...

I know companies and govs who have thousands of groups, many of them
with thousands of members.  There are also the builtin groups like
"Users" or "Domain Users" which contain literally all users.  Adding all
the users to the gr_mem field is not an option.


Corinna

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