Re: [cobalt-users] 32 Group Limitation

["Robert G. Fisher" <rfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 02:48:58PM -0800, Lyle Scheer wrote:
> You are correct.  It stems from a Linux limitation that a user on a Linux
> machine can be in no more than 32 groups.... you can put them in more than
> 32 groups in the /etc/groups file, but they will only show up in the first
> 32.  We were not aware of this when we designed our interface to handle
> virtual sites, and it came up in our SQA testing, but unless we totally
> rework the way we handle groups and virtual site, or patch Linux itself, we
> cannot get around this.

Has there been any testing on a cobalt of a 'patched' kernel -- after
all,  it is only one line in limits.h that we're talking about here
where it reads:

#define NGROUPS_MAX	32	/* supplimental group IDs are available */

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