Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:49:03 +0000 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: anyone running with ngroups increased from 16? Message-ID: <20180416154903.GA44509@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <ee1ec98f-2214-36d5-97e4-00475c697593@freebsd.org> References: <ee1ec98f-2214-36d5-97e4-00475c697593@freebsd.org>
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--XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 06:37:53PM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Windows users seem to have an almost unlimited number of groups and=20 > soem places seem to use them a LOT. > This gives Posix systems problems with deciding how to handle them=20 > all. Especially when getting > user credentials from winbindd (samba). >=20 > Does anyone know of any work done to either bypass this limit or to at=20 > least expand it? I fixed this in 2009 for everything but NFS AUTH_SYS. NGROUPS_MAX is 1023. IIRC the usual hack employed in storage systems is to ignore the groups provided by AUTH_SYS and get them from winbindd. I don't know of a public implementation of that. -- Brooks --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJa1MXvAAoJEKzQXbSebgfAfMUH/3cAgVc4K+wYwqEszvbvbGrG V8WO8LCot3nwFMnVp1yfW4FpXf6Vsli4rTJIzQW9fuCgwAXHj5aiCDi8dp3HFLIK U7zlUrsMenNgPPdU/3yPlDAUo4Mmnh6qW5Vp4dsv8jnzoDRv0xeKXh4UffLi5+Rc gKjhPqeno+aG9aUiDUCFkkO/7bUG61qh5DWiwZFtuFyPzqUWm259OWvoxQoufgeE 6gFj5QOafFmN/xkrD2n0eMIcaX1VOpLG0vMGwxYoF+ZKSkbvvlByw1TjD0EV4/rm V8J/rvcU/ix6eIwdGUoJSknfmFeI1FynyIRUmiY6tBLOcRxT8k9qb+ze5Dw/dxM= =A7Eg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l--
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