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Date:      Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:22:55 +0100
From:      "Timur I. Bakeyev" <timur@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Old user can't log in
Message-ID:  <7d743c270902131722p7f4632bbwacec2d2881a27421@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1234498626.13067.96.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
References:  <325E4EC8-BD2B-45C1-978C-4922D16D3A94@identry.com> <9391FD2D-59ED-455A-8C87-2854C7EF1E52@mac.com> <ECDF6933-47F6-4D67-AC5C-5E149590D971@identry.com> <1234498626.13067.96.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au>

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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



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