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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 01:53:07 +0200
From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: How to increase max number of groups per uid ?
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On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:34:07 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com> wrote:
> >
> > is there a simple way in either 2.4 or 2.6 to get a lot more than 32 groups
> > per uid?
> 
> 2.6 kernels support up to 65536 groups per user.

Then this feature didn't seem to make it in the core utils.
On a 2.6-based SuSE 9.1 "groups" (which is in fact "id") lists exactly 32.

What about other distros?

Regards,
Stephan