Samba and groups > 16

[David Collier-Brown]

  Solaris supports getgroups, and I see tests in ./testsuite/nsswitch/initgroups.c
which use it to find the number of groups so we can get them all, 
but the code in source/lib/system_smbd.c finds the number of
groups, but then then uses initgroups() which has a hard limit!

  Am I reading this correctly ???

--dave

Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:11:58AM -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 
>> So: is there a problem in Samba or in the name service
>>switch, or both, which limits the number of groups that Samba
>>gets?
> 
> 
> Solaris kernel problem. The only Unix I know of that has really solved this is
> Linux 2.6 where you can have 64k groups per user by default (iirc).
> 
> Volker
> 

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