Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 03:00:16 GMT From: "Dean Povey" <Dean.Povey@quest.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/113398: initgroups fails rather than truncates if number of groups > NGROUPS_MAX meaning the user can no longer login Message-ID: <200706060300.l5630FIm046664@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/113398; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Dean Povey" <Dean.Povey@quest.com> To: <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org>, "Dean Povey" <Dean.Povey@quest.com> Cc: Subject: Re: misc/113398: initgroups fails rather than truncates if number of groups > NGROUPS_MAX meaning the user can no longer login Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:45:42 +1000 Additional note: The following link documents the NGROUPS_MAX limit on various OS'es. You can see that because FreeBSD has the most conservative limit this problem is very likely to be encountered in a heterogeneous UNIX environment where groups information is sourced from a common database (LDAP,NIS,Active Directory). http://j3e.de/ngroups.html
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