Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Aug 1999 11:27:43 +0200 (CEST) | Subject | 2.3.10/2.3.13-pre7 NFS/RPC patch (repost) | From | Trond Myklebust <> |
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>>>>> " " == Frank van Maarseveen <fvm@tasking.nl> writes:
> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] The RPC layer used by the NFS > client restricts the number of groups to 16. This seems to be a > hard protocol limit. The patch below gets around this > limitation by implementing a group id cache in the RPC layer. This is a hard limit that is part of the Sun RPC's 'UNIX authentication' scheme. The X/Open group specifies the RPC definition as
struct auth_unix { unsigned int stamp; string machinename<255>; unsigned int uid; unsigned int gid; unsigned int gids<16>; };
Please note that other authentication schemes (DES, Kerberos etc.) define completely different structures.
Cheers, Trond
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