Too many groups for Solaris

mike_jaixen

My sysadmin recently informed me that we had reached the limit on the number of groups that we could establish on a Solaris server. (This happened when we created group #82, but some of the groups are no longer in use; I estimate that we have approximately 70 groups in place, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually 64...)

We have about 110 users and in order to manage who can access each section of our web site, each section is in it's own branch and workarea managed with it's own group assignment. There are some groups that have mulitple workarea, but 80% of groups have only 1 workarea.

It sounds like TS 6.5 might address this issue, but being at capacity today, I need something a little sooner. My first thought is to consolidate many of the groups, and then use our approval workflows to ensure that nothing goes out that shouldn't.

However, I wonder if anybody else has other thoughts? I'm using TS 5.5.2 on Solaris 2.8. Group assignments are maintained in LDAP.

Adam Stoller

Are you sure about that limitation? We have an /etc/group file on one of our Solaris 8 systems with 125 entries.

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