Re: [OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

2013-06-10 Thread Paul B. Henson
On 6/10/2013 4:01 PM, Ira Cooper wrote: I patched in it illumos. And it passes the tests. But I wouldn't assume it fixes NFS. Fixing one path of error, doesn't mean all paths are fixed. The error in this case is one part of the code doing a binary search (assuming the group list is sorted)

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

2013-06-10 Thread Paul B. Henson
On 6/10/2013 2:44 PM, Ira Cooper wrote: If it is the "sort" and you're getting the data from setgroups. I wrote a patch for that today, it came up on the samba-technical list. If it is NFS not doing things right, or other things... that's a whole 'nother ball of wax. What application is trigg

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

2013-06-10 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Ira, Yesterday Ira Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: > > > On 6/10/2013 1:48 PM, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > > > > answering my own question ... > >> > >> the problem seems to be this > >> > >> > >> https://www.illumos.org/**issues/3691

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

2013-06-10 Thread Ira Cooper
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: > On 6/10/2013 1:48 PM, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > > answering my own question ... >> >> the problem seems to be this >> >>https://www.illumos.org/**issues/3691 >> > > I hadn't had a chance to reply to y

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

2013-06-10 Thread Paul B. Henson
On 6/10/2013 1:48 PM, Tobias Oetiker wrote: answering my own question ... the problem seems to be this https://www.illumos.org/issues/3691 I hadn't had a chance to reply to your original message yet, but I had this exact problem under S10U10 – as the ticket says, they switched to a bina

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

2013-06-10 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Tobias Oetiker wrote: > Folks, > > We are trying to implement a fileserver using OmniOS. The customer > has been on Linux until now, but ZFS seems VERY tempting. > > The first problem we ran into is that OmniOS seems to limit the > number of groups per user to 16 by default. Setting ngroups_

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

2013-06-10 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Ira Cooper wrote: > If it works, use it. > > I'm merely stating from experience in situations with even more groups, the > max is 1024, and people may wish to be aware of it / use it. I personally > use it just so I don't have to worry about increasing it. But that's me. in testing it wor

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

2013-06-10 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Ira Cooper wrote: > Actually, just set ngroups_max to 1024 in /etc/system, there is an outside > chance of a user having 128 groups in some AD environments. 1024 seems > less likely. so you suggest that setting ngroups_max to 128 is bad ? while setting it to 1024 would be good ? in our set

[OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

2013-06-10 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Folks, We are trying to implement a fileserver using OmniOS. The customer has been on Linux until now, but ZFS seems VERY tempting. The first problem we ran into is that OmniOS seems to limit the number of groups per user to 16 by default. Setting ngroups_max to 128 in /etc/system seemd to take c