Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 11:49:44 -0500 From: "Reuben A. Popp" <rapopp@eastcentral.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: kern.ngroups question Message-ID: <200706051149.45787.rapopp@eastcentral.edu>
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Hello all, Can someone explain to me the rationale behind having ngroups_max set to 16 by default? I came across this issue originally when working on our Samba implementation (samba-3 out of ports, running on 6-STABLE). We have some users that belong to a number of groups, some of whom need to belong to more groups than the defined hard limit. On doing a little research, I did come across the PR detailed in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/108552, and continued reading the linked thread from March 2003, however this really doesn't explain why the limit is set to 16. Can one adjust the value in syslimits.h on a system and then rebuild world/ports with the expectation this will work, or is the issue more involved then that? Is (or has) there any discussion on raising that number to a larger value? Thanks in advance (doubly so if this is a lame question) Reuben -- Reuben A. Popp Systems Administrator Information Technology Department East Central College 1+ 636 583 5195 x2480
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