Bug 144671 - Group Limitation of 32 Causing Issues
Summary: Group Limitation of 32 Causing Issues
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: dff
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Whiteboard:
: 146258 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 133089
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-01-10 15:56 UTC by Andrew Merkert
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2005-01-13 13:11:43 UTC
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Description Andrew Merkert 2005-01-10 15:56:39 UTC
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Description of problem:
As a large corporation using Linux to support both Windows PCs and 
various UNIX platforms, we would like to have the maximum number of 
groups that a user can be a member of increased from the current 
maximum of 32 to 64, 128, or 256 to allow for a more granular 
security configuration.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.21-20.EL

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a user to 33 groups in the /etc/group file.
2. Change the permissions on a file so that only the 32nd group has 
access to the file.
3. Try to access the file (successful)
4. Change the permissions on the same file so that only the 33rd 
group has access to the file.
5. Try to access the file (unsuccessful)
    

Actual Results:  The first attempt is successful and the second 
attempt fails.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Suzanne Hillman 2005-01-10 22:22:33 UTC
Internal RFE bug #144721 entered; will be considered for future releases.

Comment 4 Jeff Needle 2005-01-13 13:11:43 UTC
This was already discussed in internal bug #133299.  We cannot change NGROUPS
for RHEL3 due to Kernel ABI issues, but for our upcoming RHEL4 release, this
restriction will be lifted.

Comment 5 Ernie Petrides 2005-01-27 02:16:00 UTC
*** Bug 146258 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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