[RC1] Login not possible
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Dec 12 14:27:40 PST 2003
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 10:19:29PM +0100, Klaus-J. Wolf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to migrate a 5.1-RELEASE machine to a 5.2-RC1. I have
> discovered that the following passage in /etc/group stops me (kjwolf)
> from logging in. I had copied it directly from my old group file. The
> error message is the one attached below. I don't get more info. To me,
> that's kind of funny.
>
> kjwolf:*:1000:kjwolf
> mwolf:*:1001:mwolf
> wolf:*:1200:kjwolf,mwolf
> wstaff:*:2000:kjwolf
> mm:*:2001:kjwolf,mwolf
> develop:*:2002:kjwolf
> classifd:*:2003:kjwolf
> mirror:*:2004:kjwolf
> mirrors:*:2005:kjwolf
> sw:*:2006:kjwolf
> yanestra:*:2007:kjwolf
> coll:*:2008:
> lusers:*:2009:
> exusers:*:2010:
>
> Dec 12 21:37:24 golulu login: setusercontext() failed - exiting
>
> _With_ those lines in /etc/group, id gives:
>
> uid=1000(kjwolf) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff), 0(wheel), 5(operator),
> 13(games), 68(dialer), 69(network), 100(users), 1000(kjwolf),
> 1200(wolf), 2000(wstaff), 2001(mm), 2002(develop), 2003(classifd),
> 2004(mirror), 2005(mirrors), 2006(sw)
That's 18 groups..there might be a limit of 16 somewhere that is
causing login to have problems.
Kris
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