Re: Changing NGROUPS_MAX to 1024?

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 04:29:25PM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> 
> People also often rely on groups being a list, not some
> unordered set. Sorting by gid may conflict with such
> assumptions.
> 

This is bound to fail in more complicated settings where nsswitch.conf is
configured for multiple naming sources, especially so if it is referring to
ldap as one of those services.  This is the sort of environment that is most
likely to exceed the 16 group limit.

NFSv4 and GSS may help resolve the group problem but it does come at the
expense of performance.

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