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Kernel 32 group limitation

DISCUSSION Brian Gao 2 participants 2 messages Jun 16, 2004

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Hi,

We are runing Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 ( kernel 2.4.9-e.40) on a
Dell 2650 box. There is a need in our application for a user to belong
to more than 32 groups. Is there a way to recompile the kernel to
support more than 32 supplementary groups ?

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Quoted 10 lines · Brian Gao

Hi,

We are runing Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 ( kernel 2.4.9-e.40) on a
Dell 2650 box. There is a need in our application for a user to belong
to more than 32 groups. Is there a way to recompile the kernel to
support more than 32 supplementary groups ?

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I'm not a subscriber of the mailing list. Please CC me your
answers/comments posted to the list. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

New Linux 2.6 kernels support >32 groups per user. The libc also needs to be recompiled for >32 support.

So I guess you're out of luck with RHEL AS 2.1. I'm not sure about RHEL 3 support either..

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