Quoting Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:01:31PM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > > IIRC maximum number is limited to 32 groups for a single user. Just in > > case you are going to add more :) > > What happens if you exceed this limit?
We encountered this at $FIRM, a lamentable proprietary software concern that was formerly a fairly decent Linux hardware company. The 32-user limit was at the time embedded in both the 2.4.x kernel series and in glibc. Attempts to assign group memberships beyond that number just don't work. I know that it was being removed from the 2.5.41 kernel code, last year, in anticipation of its removal from glibc. I don't know if the glibc people caught up with that, or not. Note: There are complications for NFS and NIS if group size gets big. (One might argue that POSIX ACLs are a better solution?) -- Cheers, * Contributing Editor, Linux Gazette * Rick Moen -*- See the Linux Gazette in its new home: -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://linuxgazette.net/>
