Samba and groups > 16

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:43:27AM -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote:
>  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 ???

initgroups is the only function that queries the system for
the known list of groups for this user. getgroups/setgroups
only get/set a known list. You have to use initgroups in
order to first populate the list you get with getgroups.

Jeremy.