Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:33:07 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Michael Vince <mv@thebeastie.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, rapopp@eastcentral.edu Subject: Re: kern.ngroups question Message-ID: <20070719143307.GA8861@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <469ECA49.8050101@thebeastie.org> References: <200706051149.45787.rapopp@eastcentral.edu> <4665B28A.7060608@elischer.org> <469ECA49.8050101@thebeastie.org>
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:19:53PM +1000, Michael Vince typed: > > I just had to deal with this limitation and it was quite annoying to say > the least, it appears Samba is somewhat deliberately designed to give > you a hard time when you run into this limit, because as soon as you add > a user to more than 16 groups it declares the group file unreadable and > as a security measure shuts down all shares and authentication which > wrecks a network which relies on Samba. > > Also as far as I know Solaris and Linux has long gone past this limitation. Linux maybe, but not Solaris: $ uname -sr SunOS 5.10 $ grep groups /usr/include/limits.h #define NGROUPS_MAX 16 /* max number of groups for a user */ cheers, Ruben > Mike > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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