>On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 02:23:11AM -0700, Casper Dik wrote: >> NGROUPS_MAX as defined by different Unix versions are as follows >> (http://www.j3e.de/ngroups.html): >> >> Linux Kernel >= 2.6.3 65536 >> Linux Kernel < 2.6.3 32 >> Tru64 / OSF/1 32 >> IBM AIX 5.2 64 >> IBM AIX 5.3 ... 6.1 128 >> OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Darwin (Mac OS X) 16 > >This article is a bit outdated (and apache claims the document date is >13/Jul/09). >This is no longer true for FreeBSD 8+, as it was bumped there to 1023.
Thanks for that correction. >See early discussion and proposed change. >http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2005-05/1086.html >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2009-June/028939.html Thanks; I'm not expecting everyone change the default configuration so we're not, for now, changing how credentials are handled in the kernel. Since I've seen two +1 and no -1 and the timer has run out, I'm marking this fasttrack as approved. Casper
