Potential bug, but mostly a head's up

[Marty J. Wolf]

I know don't believe the following is a Samba bug (more likely an
initgroups bug or even a RedHat Linux bug), but I have made the following
observation that may help out a confused Samba user.

If I put myself in in 31 or more different groups on the Samba server
and then try to connect from a client, I get the following (long) entry
in the corresponding log file:


[2001/01/05 11:16:47, 0] smbd/password.c:setup_groups(164)
  Unable to initgroups. Error was Invalid argument
[2001/01/05 11:16:47, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(40)
  ===============================================================
[2001/01/05 11:16:47, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(41)
  INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 8454 (2.0.7)
  Please read the file BUGS.txt in the distribution
[2001/01/05 11:16:47, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(43)
  ===============================================================
[2001/01/05 11:16:47, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(2381)
  PANIC: internal error
[2001/01/05 11:16:47, 0] smbd/password.c:setup_groups(164)
  Unable to initgroups. Error was Invalid argument
[2001/01/05 11:16:47, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(40)
  ===============================================================
[2001/01/05 11:16:47, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(41)
  INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 8456 (2.0.7)
  Please read the file BUGS.txt in the distribution
[2001/01/05 11:16:47, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(43)
  ===============================================================
[2001/01/05 11:16:47, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(2381)
  PANIC: internal error
[2001/01/05 11:16:47, 0] smbd/password.c:setup_groups(164)
  Unable to initgroups. Error was Invalid argument
[2001/01/05 11:16:47, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(40)
  ===============================================================
[2001/01/05 11:16:47, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(41)
  INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 8458 (2.0.7)
  Please read the file BUGS.txt in the distribution

I am running version 2.0.7-4 of Samba under RedHat Linux 6.2.  I am
using the 2.2.16 linux kerel.  I use the command gpasswd -a to add myself
to groups.  If I use gpasswd -d to remove myself from groups and get
below 31, things progress smoothly.

Regards,

MJ

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