The only documentation that I have found (which is 4 years old) points to 32 as a maximum. I'm going to keep digging and see if this has changed.
http://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=ntapcs6330
Hth
Vic
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Sphar, Mike Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:56 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Maximum number of groups per user
Is it possible the limit is not the number of groups, but actually the literal size of the line in the groups file? I have vague memories of running into some limits of that sort in the distant past in the unix world. That each line in the groups file could not be larger than X characters.
-- Michael W. Sphar - IS&T - Lead Systems Administrator SMBU Engineering Support Services, BMC Software
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Francois Joubert Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:49 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Maximum number of groups per user
Hi
I am new to the list. I have been trying to get a definitive statement from NetApp about the maximum number of groups a user can belong to if we rely on the /etc/group and /etc/passwd files on the filer.
The setup we have tested has CIFS clients (Windows2000) with the filer part of a workgroup. We rely on unix group permissions for access to data directories. We are not using any NFS, NIS, LDAP or NT domain - all local authentication etc.
I have done some testing and it appears the limit is 32 (not a surprising number) but have not been able to get this confirmed.
Has anyone tried/done this before?
We are migrating from samba servers running on FreeBSD with modified kernels which allow users to be in thousands of groups (don't laugh; I don't want to go into the reasons) because this facilitates our companies working practices.
Thanks
Francois