NGROUPS_MAX on Linux

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Fri Feb 20 11:35:29 EST 2004


Tim Hockin wrote:
> Linux has just raised the NGROUPS_MAX limit from 32 to 64k.  In doing an
> audit of various tools, openssh turned up as having incorrect groups
> handling.  Almost no user-space apps really care about NGROUPS_MAX.
> 
> A proposed patch (untested, since the CVS build won't compile on my RH box..
> :-/) :

This is an open bug:
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787

BTW, What's the build problem?  It works for me (it gets tested 
automatically several times per day).

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