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Comment on initgroups.c:1.8: it can prevent users from logging in if

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a user has over 16 groups defined.

Reported by:	"Klaus-J. Wolf" <yanestra@web.de>
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Robert Watson 2003-12-14 00:42:00 +00:00
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@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW:
developers choose to disable these features on build machines developers choose to disable these features on build machines
to maximize performance. to maximize performance.
20031213:
src/lib/libc/gen/initgroups.c:1.8 now causes logins to fail
if the login process is unable to successfully set the
process credentials to include all groups defined for the
user. The current kernel limit is 16 groups; administrators
may wish to check that users do not have over 16 groups
defined, or they will be unable to log in.
20031112: 20031112:
The statfs structure has been updated with 64-bit fields to The statfs structure has been updated with 64-bit fields to
allow accurate reporting of multi-terabyte filesystem allow accurate reporting of multi-terabyte filesystem