> Does it actually work with NFS???? or any networked file system?
> Most of them limit ngroups to 16 to 32, and cannot send any data
> if there is an overflow, since that overflow would replace all of the
> data you try to send/recieve...
NFS has a smaller limit, that is correct. An unfortunate limitation.
> And I really doubt that anybody has 10000 unique groups (or even
> close to that) running under any system. The center I'm at has
> some of the largest UNIX systems ever made, and there are only
> about 600 unique groups over the entire center. The largest number
> of groups a user can be in is 32. And nobody even comes close.
I'm glad it doesn't affect you. If it was a more common problem, it
would have been solved a long time ago. It does affect some people,
though. Maybe they can redesign their group structures, but why not
remove this arbitrary limit, since we can?
Tim
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