Re: 2.2.* kernels w/ glibc-2.1.* allowing ngroups_max to be > 128?

Matthew Wilcox (matthew@wil.cx)
Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:31:35 -0400

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 08:38:55AM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> The problem is compatability. It is not possible to change the limit if NFS
> is being used. 256 groups would just about use up half the UDP packet just
> for the group list.

that's bogus; RPC/XDR allows for counted arrays. Colour sun stupid for
limiting it to 16.

> If you think you need 256 groups per user, then I think you should partition
> your users differently. It sounds like an improper use of groups. This almost
> sounds like one group per user.

that's not an improper use of groups.

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