Re: NGROUPS_MAX

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com)
Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:50:36 -0500 (CDT)


On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Craig Whitmore wrote:
> I need to set up a server with a user that is in more than 32 groups at a time
> and as far as I know NGROUPS_MAX in limits.h changes this maximum.
> If I increase (say to 256) this will this break anything or will linux work perfectly
> well?

I am interested in the answer too, though I suspect this belongs on the
glibc not linux-kernel list.

Some ports of glibc have it as high as 256, but I don't think that port
is based on the Linux kernel.

Jeff

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