Manage more than 16 Unix groups

We have tried to get around the problem with maximum 16 users in a group in Solaris. Our solution is to have groups in the groups. This only allow us to see the content but not to modify it. We in the support-team wants to see and be able to modify all content, any one who knows how to achieve this?

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Migrateduser

We got around the 16 group limit by using Novell eDirectory. We are running eDirectory for Solaris have a tree that is populated from our main tree. It works very well and is fast and easy to manage users and groups. No more creating users on the local file system. Novell eDirectory can also work on Windows NT. It is a full LDAP compliant directory.

There is also a setting we added to the iw.cfg, I believe, but forget where that was. I'll track that down and let you know.

David Bezzant
dbezzant@novell.com

Migrateduser

Found the option you need to turn on in the iw.cfg it is, map_secondary_to_primary_gid=yes, the default is no.

David

Rohit

To have more than 16 groups in Unix, do the following
- modify the file at /etc/system
- add line as
set ngroups_max=32

That will take it to 32 groups.

Enjoy!!

Rohit Bafna
CEO, CyberAds Studio
http://www.cyberadsstudio.com

sara

what is the absolute limit of groupmembership when using the map_secondary_to_primary option in iw.cfg?

smigster

Did you ever find out the max # with the special iw.cfg option? Thanks...