On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 06:37:53PM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Windows users seem to have an almost unlimited number of groups and > soem places seem to use them a LOT. > This gives Posix systems problems with deciding how to handle them > all. Especially when getting > user credentials from winbindd (samba). > > Does anyone know of any work done to either bypass this limit or to at > least expand it?
I fixed this in 2009 for everything but NFS AUTH_SYS. NGROUPS_MAX is 1023. IIRC the usual hack employed in storage systems is to ignore the groups provided by AUTH_SYS and get them from winbindd. I don't know of a public implementation of that. -- Brooks
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