Re: NGROUPS/NGROUPS_MAX

[Brett Lymn <brett.lymn%baesystems.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 02:11:09PM +0000, Brian Ginsbach wrote:
> 
> Recent versions of AIX, Solaris, and Linux contain work-arounds that
> essentially by-pass the 16 group limitation (RFC 5531).  The
> degree of by-pass varies (the number of additional groups may not
> necessarily be unlimited).

this may well be but just FYI, samba will do an assert on a user in more
that 16 unix groups.  This may not be relevant in the current context
but just putting it out there :)

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