[olug] NGROUPS limit

[Christopher Cashell]

At Tue, 27 Apr 04, Unidentified Flying Banana Tim - DZ, said:
> Does anyone know if the NGROUPS limit of 32 groups per user has been fixed /
> upped in the 2.6 kernel.  I remember reading that it was on the TODO list,
> but I personally don't know if that made it into the kernel - or maybe some
> specific distros have patches to up the limit?

I believe that the NGROUPS limit was upped with the release of the 2.6.4
kernel.  As I understand it, the limit is now[1] 64k.

> -t 

 [1] From /usr/src/linux-2.6.4/include/linux/limits.h:
     #define NGROUPS_MAX    65536    /* supplemental group IDs are
                                      * available                     */

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