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by **Brian Bourgo** » Thu, 11 Feb 1999 04:00:00

I am running Solaris 2.5 on a Web Server. We have a large number of groups
for each subarea of our web, but we also have a general internet service
specialist who needs access to all areas. I have made him a member of all
groups, but grpck says he is in too many groups. According the man page on
the group file, there is a variable NGROUPS.MAX that specifies this group
maximum. Does anyone know how to change this? Any help would be
appreciated.

Brian Bourgon
Programmer Analyst
Community College of Southern Nevada

by **Janis Lykak** » Tue, 16 Feb 1999 04:00:00

>I am running Solaris 2.5 on a Web Server. We have a large number of groups
>for each subarea of our web, but we also have a general internet service
>specialist who needs access to all areas. I have made him a member of all
>groups, but grpck says he is in too many groups. According the man page on
>the group file, there is a variable NGROUPS.MAX that specifies this group
>maximum. Does anyone know how to change this? Any help would be
>appreciated.

/etc/system is the file to be I think.

Something like
set ngroups_max=32 might do the trick.

If I recall correctly, 32 is the limit in Solaris BUT:....

NFS has a limit of 16!!

Setting ngroups_max to a number above 16 might result in RPC errors
when accessing a NFS file system.

How about ACL usage. The "work" in 2.5.1. I do not know about 2.5
However in 2.5.1 there are some ACL problems which only appear to
be solved in Solaris 7.

Hope to have been of help.

Greetings,

Janis Lykakis
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Janis Lykakis.
CVSI Unix Consultant

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Increasing NGROUPS_MAX in Solaris 2.5

Increasing NGROUPS_MAX in Solaris 2.5

Increasing NGROUPS_MAX in Solaris 2.5