Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964858AbWHWLLW (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:11:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964880AbWHWLLW (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:11:22 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:16017 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964858AbWHWLLV (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:11:21 -0400 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:11:19 +0200 From: "Robert Szentmihalyi" In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0608230355s74af2717g78675ea56b689fc0@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20060823111119.203710@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060823091652.235230@gmx.net> <2c0942db0608230355s74af2717g78675ea56b689fc0@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Group limit for NFS exported file systems To: ray-gmail@madrabbit.org X-Authenticated: #26149461 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 6100 (Global Message Exchange) X-Priority: 3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1050 Lines: 26 > On 8/23/06, Robert Szentmihalyi wrote: > > is there a group limit for NFS exported file systems in recent kernels? > > One if my users cannot access directories that belong to a group he > actually _is_ a > > member of. That, however, is true only when accessing them over NFS. On > the local file > > system, everything is fine. UIDs and GIDs are the same on client and > server, so that > > cannot be the problem. Client and server run Gentoo Linux with kernel > 2.6.16 on the > > server and 2.6.17 on the client. > > Is he a member of more than 16 groups? Yes. He is actually a member of 27 groups. Is the limit of 16 groups still current? I was under the impression that it is a limitation of 2.4 kernels.... Is there any proper work-around for this? Thanks, Robert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/