On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 10:32, Ragnar Wisloff wrote: > There's been an entertaining discussion about this :-) > > Let me just make the comment that too many groups will create real > problems, no matter what the naming scheme is. Since NFS will honour no > more than 16 groups,
YIKES! > users logging in to a thin client server (which > mounts the home dirs etc. using NFS) will risk not > being able to use common file storage set aside for > a specific group. The LDAP frontend must (MUST!!!) enforce this limitation, and warn the admin once it is encountered. Failing silently is not an option. > We have diagnosed this problem at one school at least, > where one of the teachers was a member of 28 groups. At the school where my cousin is IT admin (i.e. a teacher who got the additional chore of being sysadmin) I suspect the number of groups have already exceeded 16. Some of the newly added users could not log in. -- Herman Robak
