Support for >32 groups in 2.6 kernel finally!

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:25:14AM +1100, Matthew Geier wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 02:42, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > NGROUPS patch was merged to Linux 2.6 tree some time ago, so the upcoming
> > kernel releases will support more than 32 groups for each user!
> > 
> > This might interest samba people..
> 
>  2.6.3 appears to be still hard coded at 32 groups. I could be wrong and
> 32 is a default that can be changed with a sysctl command, but the last
> 'ngroups fix' patch I can find does not seem to be in 2.6.3
> 

Yep, the patch is not in 2.6.3.

It is included in the bk-tree now, so it will appear in the upcoming
releases.

-- Pasi Kärkkäinen
       
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