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