[200] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Re: "too many groups" error
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun May 14 23:08:43 1995
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 23:08:29 -0400
To: Eric Ding <ericding@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[198] in netbsd-help mailing list archive"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> > I think this happens if you put yourself in group wheel. The fix is
> > to modify xlogin; I haven't spent the time looking into it yet.
>
> hmm... this doesn't sound exactly right. I've been in group "wheel" for
> some time now, but only have seen this message in the last couple days.
It has nothing to do with that. It's due to how many groups you're in,
which is the sum of the groups you're in in /etc/group. If you've
added yourself to any groups in group.local, xlogin will still add the
moira groups you're in to /etc/group (currently 14). If that exceeds
16, then parts of the NetBSD libc get unhappy.
It's not clear to me that there is an appropriate solution; the obvious
one if to fix xlogin to check for local groups...
--jhawk
