From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 07:42:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30AAC16A4CE for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 07:42:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2583243FE3 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 07:42:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id hB2FgT6B099869; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:42:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:42:28 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Konstantin Gritsenko Message-ID: <20031202154228.GC2428@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20031202134842.GA9513@dev.silvercom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031202134842.GA9513@dev.silvercom.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-BETA X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: very intresting question about groups X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:42:35 -0000 In the last episode (Dec 02), Konstantin Gritsenko said: > ./sys/sys/syslimits.h: > #define NGROUPS_MAX 16 > /* max supplemental group id's */ > > how to explain this limitation? > and what can be if i increase this value and make "make World" I think NFS access may break, either failing completely with "bad RPC call" errors, or truncating the group list to the first 16 entries when accessing remote files. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com