auth sys and 16 group limit for NFS

[aurfalien]

Hi and thanks for getting back to me.

A work around in Linux NFS server would be this;

rpc.mountd --manage-gids

Is there an equivalent in FreeBSD?

- aurf

"Janitorial Services"

On Oct 2, 2015, at 3:58 AM, Arthur Chance <freebsd at qeng-ho.org> wrote:

> On 02/10/2015 00:51, aurfalien wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> First, excuse me if this is not posted on the right list.
>> 
>> I’ve been hitting this limit for a few years now, working around it
>> by simply managing LDAP group membership.  But was curious if the
>> only way to fix is moving to kerberos for auth?
>> 
>> Some sites say its no longer an issue in FreeBSD 9/later and newer
>> Linux kernels of the same vintage.
>> 
>> But I am still hitting it.
>> 
>> Curious of the community has some words of wisdom etc…
> 
> The limit is part of the RFC specification of NFS for versions < 4. I think the usual advice is "use NFSv4" if you need more than 16 groups. I have no personal experience with NFSv4 though.
> 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> - aurf
>> 
>> "Janitorial Services"
> 
> :-)
> 
> 
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