kern.ngroups question

[Reuben A. Popp]

Hello all,

Can someone explain to me the rationale behind having ngroups_max set to 16 by 
default?

I came across this issue originally when working on our Samba implementation 
(samba-3 out of ports, running on 6-STABLE).  We have some users that belong 
to a number of groups, some of whom need to belong to more groups than the 
defined hard limit.  On doing a little research, I did come across the PR 
detailed in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/108552, and 
continued reading the linked thread from March 2003, however this really 
doesn't explain why the limit is set to 16.  

Can one adjust the value in syslimits.h on a system and then rebuild 
world/ports with the expectation this will work, or is the issue more 
involved then that?  Is (or has) there any discussion on raising that number 
to a larger value?

Thanks in advance (doubly so if this is a lame question)
Reuben 

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Reuben A. Popp
Systems Administrator
Information Technology Department
East Central College
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