I am having an issue regarding the number of groups and, the numbers of users per group at our site. We have 3 toasters running 5.2.1P2 being administered by a solaris 2.5.1 server. We have about 75 unix style qtrees for both NFS and CIFS protocols.
I have a requirement that several users need to be in more than 16 groups. I believe modifying the Solaris kernel will not only slow down the access, but may present problems on the filer.
Also, I require to have more than 1024 characters needed per group entry. I have tried creating sub-groups and a master group within the group file(see below) - I cannot get this to work. Maybe I need to upgrade my Solaris NIS server? example: project1:*:100:usera,userb... project2:*:101:usery,userz mstproject:*:102:project1,project2
I would think someone has encountered this problem before. I would appreciate any feedback regarding these issues.
Mike McBride IBM Global Services Unix and NT Server Support mcbride2@us.ibm.com (760) 634-6239