[OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Tobias Oetiker wrote:

> Folks,
>
> We are trying to implement a fileserver using OmniOS. The customer
> has been on Linux until now, but ZFS seems VERY tempting.
>
> The first problem we ran into is that OmniOS seems to limit the
> number of groups per user to 16 by default. Setting ngroups_max to
> 128 in /etc/system seemd to take care of this.
>
> Today we tried to 'go live' and had to abort because the system was
> behaving erratically. Users who clearly do belong to a certain
> group were refused access to a directory. While other users a
> slighly different (larger) set of groups memberships could access
> the directory just fine.
>
> we will be happy to take out a support contract with OmniTI if this
> will help  us get the system to work as a file server for a user
> population with up to 40 group memberships per person.

answering my own question ...

the problem seems to be this

  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3691

and

  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3577

anyone working on this ? seems pretty nasty ...

cheers
tobi

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