tkaczma@gryf.net wrote:
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Robert L. Millner wrote:
t> Or you can use different group names with the same gid and everything will t> work fine. This is what we do. ;) We use NIS for everything.
The degeneracy state of group.bygid map should be causing you subtle problems somewhere.
You are correct, the group.bygid is broken, but to my knowledge very few applications use the group.bygid to look up users belonging to a particular group. We don't have any problems with it that I know of, and the scheme operates for many years.
Tom
We are using the same mecanism at TI France and we don't have any problem. About max number of group limitation, you can change the system NGROUPS MAX default value, but it is not supported by SUN to my knowledge.
Johnny
# cat /usr/include/limits.h | grep NGROUPS #define NGROUPS_MAX 16 /* max number of groups for a user */
# cat /usr/include/sys/param.h | grep NGROUPS * configurable parameter NGROUPS_MAX. #define NGROUPS_UMIN 0 #define NGROUPS_UMAX 32 * NGROUPS_MAX_DEFAULT: *MUST* match NGROUPS_MAX value in limits.h. #define NGROUPS_MAX_DEFAULT 16