topic Re: need group membership for more than 20 groups in Operating System - HP-UX

need group membership for more than 20 groups

Devesh Pant_1 — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 17:47:30 GMT

I have an application id that needs to be a member of 32 groups on the system. Is there is way to break the limit of 20 groups that an id can be a member of ?

thanks in advance

Devesh

Re: need group membership for more than 20 groups

A. Clay Stephenson — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 21:15:47 GMT

Prepare to be disappointed; NGROUPS_MAX is a constant.

Re: need group membership for more than 20 groups

Steven E. Protter — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:53:26 GMT

Thats a hard limit. No way to break it. See your HP rep and hope the next Os release allwos for more.

SEP

Re: need group membership for more than 20 groups

Jino.P.V — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:14:53 GMT

NGROUPS_MAX is hardcoded to 20 and that 'breaks' some applications at times, when users group membership exceeds that number.This is governed by the non-tuneable NGROUPS kernel parameter. HP is working on that.It may come in future release..