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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:35:51 +0200
From:      Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: max number of groups a user can be member of
Message-ID:  <44C65677.8070102@supsi.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20060724150846.GF22820@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <44C4D679.602@supsi.ch> <20060724150846.GF22820@dan.emsphone.com>

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Sorry.. In my previous mail, I forgot to say to send
replies to my mailbox as well, as I'm not on the list.

Thank you.


Hi.

Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jul 24), Roberto Nunnari said:
>> Hi everybody.
>>
>> Could anybody tell me the reason why by default FreeBSD
>> limits the number of groups a user can be member of to 16?
> 
> Compatibility with the NFS protocol.  A google search on "nfs 16
> groups" returned a lot of hits.
> 
> http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1998/1328.html
> http://nfsworld.blogspot.com/2005/03/whats-deal-on-16-group-id-limitation.html
> 
> You can raise the limit, but you need to make sure that you raise it on
> all servers that share NFS mounts.  If you don't you may end up with
> remote file access either failing or not passing the full group
> membership list to the remote server, which could cause incorrect
> "permission denied" errors.
> 


The FreeBSD box act as a NFS/NIS client to a linux box.

How can I get to know what the limit is on the linux box?

FreeBSD box:
# uname -srp
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 i386

Linx box
# uname -s -o -r
Linux 2.4.21-47.ELsmp GNU/Linux

Thank you a lot.

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