If one user have more than 16 groups, it will cause that the groups don’t work for permission control.
How to unlimited this number of groups per user in Centos4/5 ?
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If one user have more than 16 groups, it will cause that the groups don’t work for permission control.
How to unlimited this number of groups per user in Centos4/5 ?
You can’t unlimit the additionnal groups per user. But you can raise the limit. Beware that most Unix systems are limited to 16 groups per user (see http://www.j3e.de/ngroups.html) , so does NFS, see https://xkyle.com/solving-the-nfs-16-group-limit-problem/ and/or http://nfsworld.blogspot.fr/2005/03/whats-deal-on-16-group-id-limitation.html
The number of group per user is defined by
NGROUPS_MAXfrom<limits.h>but should be read withsysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX). You can change the kernel maximum group count withsysctl kernel.ngroupmaxor/proc/sys/kernel/ngroups_max. But this will require support from C library, PAM and login program.