On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 03:22:19PM -0600, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:57:43AM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote: > > mm_li...@pulsar-zone.net (Matthew Mondor) writes: > > > > >What does NFS do in this case? I seem to remember that it also imposes > > >a sane size limit, possibly even below NGROUPS_MAX, is it really the > > >case? If so, would this also be acceptable? > > > > NFS (or rather the underlying SunRPC) passes an array of 16 gids, which is > > a common problem when you try to use groups for fine grained access control. > > Based on what I've read, it's only NFSv3 that works like that. With > NFSv4 the access control can be based on what groups the server thinks the > user is in, so there are no group ids being passed.
http://nfsworld.blogspot.com/2005/03/whats-deal-on-16-group-id-limitation.html Greetings, -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
