Re: NGROUPS/NGROUPS_MAX

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost (Mouse) writes:

>> I need a certain user to be a member of (or, more precisely, have NFS
>> access to the data of) more than 16 groups.

>> Is it possible to compile a kernel with a raised NGROUPS or
>> NGROUPS_MAX?

>Of course.  But will it do what you want?

>At the very least I expect you'll have to do this on both the NFS
>client and NFS server.  Beyond that, there's also the question of the
>NFS protocol; I haven't checked whether the NFS code uses
>NGROUPS/NGROUPS_MAX or whether it has a separate constant,


/usr/include/rpc/auth_unix.h:#define NGRPS 16