[OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

[Ira Cooper]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:

> On 6/10/2013 2:44 PM, Ira Cooper wrote:
>
>  If it is the "sort" and you're getting the data from setgroups.  I wrote
>> a patch for that today, it came up on the samba-technical list.
>>
>> If it is NFS not doing things right, or other things... that's a whole
>> 'nother ball of wax.  What application is triggering this?
>>
>
> It's really an underlying issue in the base OS; you can work around it for
> a particular application by overriding the setgroups libc call to make it
> sort the groups before setting them (I actually did that for samba under
> S10), but the root cause fix needs to be in the OS to account for cases
> such as over NFS where you don't really have a way to get in between the OS
> and the group list.
>

Umnn...

I patched in it illumos.

And it passes the tests.  But I wouldn't assume it fixes NFS.

Fixing one path of error, doesn't mean all paths are fixed.

-Ira
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