[Samba] Repost: group membership limitations and Linux kernel

[Azelton Sean (RBNA/CIT1)]

Does anyone have any information with regard to this issue?

Thank you,

Sean

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 09:17, Azelton Sean (RBNA/CIT1) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was hoping someone here would be willing to clear up some confusion
> we're having about group membership limits and linux.
> 
> While trying to use a file server solution in an AD environment using 
> OpenLDAP / sasl /  Samba 2.2.x, we ran into the issue that when trying
> to import/re-create  group membership,  we reach a limit at 32 groups.
> It is my understanding that this is a limitation in the number of
> groups that a given user can be  in because of some hard-coded values
> in the linux kernel.  
> 
> I'm wondering if we abandon the OpenLDAP idea and went to Samba 3 with
> direct AD authentication - would we run into this limitation again (on
> Linux)?    If so - does this limitation exist on other platforms
> (FreeBSD for example) or even on other architectures (Solaris/SPARC)?
> 
> If someone can point me to more information on this issue I'd greatly
> appreciate it, as we have the majority of our AD users (10s of
> thousands) with  150+ groups per user (we have a global AD forest). 
> I'm not sure exactly how this limit would manifest itself using Samba
> 3 - if at all.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sean
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