Re: Max groups at 32?

Trond Myklebust
2002-06-04T21:41:16Z

>>>>> " " == Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> writes:

>> Few months ago was release by me shadow package with some
>> neccessary for this changes. From
>> http://shadow.pld.org.pl/ChangeLog:

> We have a patch floating around that enables unlimited group
> membership at the kernel level, too. We've never submitted it
> because it was suggested that we were crazy and should just
> bugger off. If I thought it might be useful and acceptable, we
> could perhaps make it available in a cleanish form.

Finally, the Linux *BSD cred patch also gets rid of that limit
(amongst other things). I haven't updated it since 2.5.3 (and it needs
breaking up into smaller patches), but it can still be found under

http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/2.5.3/linux-2.5.3-cred.dif

Cheers,
Trond