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SubjectRe: 2.2.* kernels w/ glibc-2.1.* allowing ngroups_max to be > 128?
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 01:31:35PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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.
I've several patches to bypass this limitation and use an arbitrary
number of groups on NFS, without breaking any standard protocol. See
http://www.inter.nl.net/users/fvm for the latest.

--
Frank

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