Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc1] Make group sorting optional in the 2.6.x kernels

From: Frank van Maarseveen
Date: Wed Jul 19 2006 - 04:01:22 EST


On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 04:26:48PM +1200, Bill Ryder wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Setting the kernel config option of UNSORTED_SUPPLEMENTAL_GROUPLIST
> will allow the use of setgroups(2) to reorder a supplemental
> group list to work around the NFS AUTH_UNIX 16 group limit.

FYI,

This problem has been worked around for several years now using
these 2.4.x and 2.6.x patches:

http://www.frankvm.com/nfs-ngroups/


--
Frank
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