max number of groups a user can be member of

[Roberto Nunnari]

Hi.

Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jul 24), Roberto Nunnari said:
>> Hi everybody.
>>
>> Could anybody tell me the reason why by default FreeBSD
>> limits the number of groups a user can be member of to 16?
> 
> Compatibility with the NFS protocol.  A google search on "nfs 16
> groups" returned a lot of hits.
> 
> http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1998/1328.html
> http://nfsworld.blogspot.com/2005/03/whats-deal-on-16-group-id-limitation.html
> 
> You can raise the limit, but you need to make sure that you raise it on
> all servers that share NFS mounts.  If you don't you may end up with
> remote file access either failing or not passing the full group
> membership list to the remote server, which could cause incorrect
> "permission denied" errors.
> 


The FreeBSD box act as a NFS/NIS client to a linux box.

How can I get to know what the limit is on the linux box?

FreeBSD box:
# uname -srp
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 i386

Linx box
# uname -s -o -r
Linux 2.4.21-47.ELsmp GNU/Linux

Thank you a lot.
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