[rhn-users] Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 2) and tunable NGROUPS_MAX

[John C. Koen]

On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 14:26 -0600, John C. Koen wrote:
> We are running RH Enterprise AS v3, with kernel: 2.4.21-15.ELsmp.  The problem
> we are encountering is that this kernel has a limit of 16 for NGROUPS_MAX, and 
> we have FTP users who are members of more than 16 groups.
> 
> For these members, the first 16 groups that they are a member of, work fine.  Any
> group after the first 16, will not work unless they use the 'newgrp' command. 

	Dan wrote:
	>Not sure if you found an answer to this, but maybe an option would be to
	>use a different FTP server?  Maybe one that supports a different
	>authentication source?  When I worked at U of Iowa we were using proftpd
	>there and it worked great.  (still using it today too in private
	>sector).
	>
	>Dan

Dan,

I very much appreciate your timely response.

Please correct me if I am mistaken, but I believe this to be a kernel issue, and
not an issue with the FTP server.

I still have no workaround for NGROUPS_MAX limitations w/ the 2.4 linux kernel, at 
this moment.

--johnk

John C. Koen
Systems & Network Administrator
Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
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