groups users

[eric stewart]

I got a message:
initgroups: cjavick is in too many groups

1. Where is the limit documented?
2. Is ther a way to increase the limit?
3. Can groups be defined within a group?

Thanks. This is the first posting for me. Hope I did it corectly.

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

the max number of groups can be found in:
/usr/include/sys/param.h
as a preprocessor directive like:
#define NGROUPS 20 /* for HP-UX 10.20 */
Don't know if this value can be increased.

Greetings

Andrew

[Andy Monks]

As Andreas said, the limit is 20. It can't be increased and you can't nest groups either.

Does your user, really need to be in that many groups.

[eric stewart]

Thanks for the info.
The groups were being used to allow access to different studies and groups.
Found a different way to get group info.
Thanks again.