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Subject: Re: anyone running with ngroups increased from 16?
From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
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On 16/4/18 6:37 pm, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Windows users seem to have an almost unlimited number of groups and 
> soem places seem to use them a LOT.
> This gives Posix systems problems with deciding how to handle them 
> all. Especially when getting
> user credentials from winbindd (samba).
>
> Does anyone know of any work done to either bypass this limit or to 
> at least expand it?

I mean with the other applications such NFS usages etc.
I know mountd explodes with > 16..  has anyone done a cleaning pass?

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> Thanks
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> Julian
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