Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> writes: > picking a tiny part from this ... > > On 2017/02/01 21:16, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: >> and the small NGROUPS_MAX limit make OpenBSD a poor >> choice for samba. > > I was under the impression the hard-limit of 16 is due to NFS, but other > OS that have larger limits do still support NFS. Any idea how they cope? > (The NGROUPS_MAX limit has been responsible for a *lot* of head-scratching > in my time...)
IIUC they truncate the groups list if forced to do so, which creates other problems. I never took the time to investigate the cost of bumping NGROUPS_MAX. In case someone(tm) does, maybe this: http://www.xkyle.com/solving-the-nfs-16-group-limit-problem/ is the way to go. -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
