NFS and 16 group limitation

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 14:24 -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:18 PM
> > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> >  Subject: Re: NFS and 16 group limitation
> >
> >>  On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 13:55 -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> >>  Anyone have a way around it?
> >
> > 16 group limitation?  As in netgroups?  I wasn't aware such a
> limitation
> > existed.  Are you sure it's not a limitation on the config file line
> > length?  You might try breaking the exports line into several pieces
> > with trailing "\" chars at the end of each except the last one.
> 
> My bad, I wasn't clear.
> 
> As in the number of groups a user can belong to and be recognized by NFS
> V3.  I don't have the ability to go to NFS V4.

Hmmm.  Well, I don't know there's a limit on netgroups.  You might try
that (make the user a member of a netgroup that contains other groupings
of netgroups, etc.).  Clunky, but may work.

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