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On 16-Jul-2002/09:59 -0500, Matthew Dodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I am having a limitations problem with groups.
>
>The problem is I have a user account that needs to belong to about 50
>groups. I seem to be running into a 32 group limitation, I add the user
>to all the groups in the /etc/groups file but when I run the
>/usr/bin/groups command the user is only in the 1st 32 groups. Think
>this was just a groups bin problem I would su -  to that user and try to
>access a file in group 41 for example - no luck - only the 1st 32 groups
>work. 
>
>Is there anyway around this? Can I recompile some source to increase the
>limits?

It looks like a kernel patch is required:

  <http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-13/0817.html>


Tony
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