On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 07:52:26PM +0200, Tomasz K??oczko wrote: > On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > [..] > > Incidentally 'id' is also limited to 32 > > users. sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) also returns 32. > > > > stable's /usr/include/linux/limits.h has NGROUPS_MAX set to 32. In > > testing and unstable it is set to 65536. > > > > > > The usermod limitation happens in stable and testing (tested with > > their respective default kernel), but not in unstable (tested with the > > testing kernel - all tested kernels having ngroups_max=65536). > > > > Basically we have a kernel without the limitation, but the executables > > have the limitation, which was probably set at compile time. > > > > Do you know what's the origin of the limitation, and how it could be > > fixed to match the default kernel's? > > shadow tools uses limits sucked from sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) and all code > are rewrited for use dynamic limit number of groups. If this functions > return inccorect value compare with output of "sysctl kernel.ngroups_max" > this mean this is glibc bug (sysconf() it is glibc part).
Thanks a lot. I'll contact the glic people :) -- Sylvain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
