 | | | maximum number of groups > 32 | maximum number of groups > 32 2005-05-18 - By Ed Wilts
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On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:33:46AM +0100, bob flynn wrote:
> >>Is there a straightforward method in RHEL 3 to increase the maximum of
> >>groups to > 32? I know it was difficult/impossible a few years ago, but
> >>I'm hoping that it's changed...
> >
> not in rhel3. is fixed for rhel4.
>
> Can someone help on this. My understanding that the max number of groups
> was 16, and that the restraint was a 4 bit field.
> Certainly under NIS this is the case. I have look in the man page for
> group and cannot see anything about 32 being a max size.
>
> Can someone point to the 32 constraint on RH3, and the expansion beyond
> this for RH4. Pointers to this in documentation would be useful.
It's a bit odd right now. usermod will generate an error if you try to
modify a user to contain more than 32 groups. However, gpasswd will
happily (and silently) let you add more groups to a user even though you
can't use them.
I wish I was at RHEL4... :-(
Thanks everybody,
.../Ed
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