Re: max 32 groups of single uid

[Aaron Hall <ahall@vitaphone.net>]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Patrick Hsieh wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I have a lot of groups in my linux, and some users have multiple groups.
> I've found that every single can only have 32 groups and when I add that
> uid to the 33rd group, it doesn't work.
>
> Is it a Linux limitation? How can I raise the limit?

Yes, it's a Linux kernel limitation. This is actually configurable when
building a kernel, but Googling reveals there are other issues involved.
See this thread from linux-kernel:

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0111.1/1712.html

In short, it seems you can't raise the limit without a good deal of
work.

- Aaron

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