From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Mon Apr 16 10:38:03 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51668F9DAFE for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:38:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CDEA57DAFF for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:38:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from Julian-MBP3.local (220-253-154-11.dyn.iinet.net.au [220.253.154.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id w3GAbwSx019874 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 03:38:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) To: freebsd-current From: Julian Elischer Subject: anyone running with ngroups increased from 16? Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 18:37:53 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:38:03 -0000 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? Thanks Julian