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On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:48 -0500, John Almberg wrote:
>
> I've been following this thread with interest: are you saying FreeBSD
> logins cannot handle more than 16 groups? If so, why? Is this mitigated
> by using other authentication methods (ie kerberos, ldap, etc)?

In fact the real limit is 14 groups, which is a long standing bug in
the libc+kernel. So beware :)

Regards,
Timur