Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:13:04 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limit on number of groups a user can join Message-ID: <5B919738-51BD-4319-A112-BC322FD7904F@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <478D3B40.3000509@netfence.it> References: <478D3B40.3000509@netfence.it>
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On Jan 15, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > I made some tries removing him from other groups and I got to the > conclusion that it works as long as he is in no more than 15 groups, > but breaks when he join the 16th. Is this an hard limit? Can it be > extended? Why this? This limit is somewhat historical but cannot easily be changed because this max # is hard-coded into the NFS protocol, which needs to describe which groups a user belongs to. If you're not using NFS, you might try changing the declaration of KI_NGROUPS in /usr/src/sys/ user.h and build a new kernel, I believe.... -- -Chuck
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