NIS Limitation

[Jake Posey_1]

I'm running into an issue on a RP3410 running 11i 64-bit Base OS where I'm running into a group limitation in NIS for a user. Basically the user is in too many groups. Is there a patch or fix for this?

Thanks,
Jake

[Marvin Strong]

based on limits.h it looks like the max groups per user would be 20, and is an OS limit not specifically related to NIS.

I don't believe there are any patches to increase this number.

[Jake Posey_1]

Is there a workaround for this? If so, how? I did one fix which was split out the groups that was having the problem by creating a second group with the same GID. However I can't do that in /etc/netgroup because we are not using gid's in /etc/netgroup.

Some users are still experiencing the problem when they try to access the file system it locks up their account.

I wonder since this is a nfs mount it's an nfs issue and not a nis problem. We're using nfs ver 3.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Jake

[Jake Posey_1]

I also forgot to mention that the NIS master is a compaq ML370 running redhat AS4.0 and the HP box rp3410 is the NIS client.