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From: Dominic Fandrey<lon_kamikaze@gmx.de>
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Subject: kern.ngroups cannot be changed
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>Number:         108552
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       kern.ngroups cannot be changed
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 30 13:00:32 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:    Tue Jan 30 13:46:52 GMT 2007
>Last-Modified:  Tue Jan 30 15:10:15 GMT 2007
>Originator:     Dominic Fandrey
>Release:        Releng_6
>Organization:
private
>Environment:
FreeBSD mobileKamikaze.norad 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Mon Jan 15 22:35:31 CET 2007     root@homeKamikaze.norad:/usr/obj/TPR40-6/i386/usr/src/sys/TPR40-6  i386
>Description:
The sysctl kern.ngroups cannot be changed, even setting it in /boot/loader.conf has no effect. The 16 groups limit is a bit low for an unchangeable magic number.
>How-To-Repeat:
# echo kern.ngroups=\"32\" >> /boot/loader.conf
# shutdown -r now

..

# sysctl kern.ngroups
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jan 30 13:46:51 UTC 2007 
State-Changed-Why:  
Please refer to : 
http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/msg09964.html 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=108552 

From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/108552: kern.ngroups cannot be changed
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:44:03 +0100

 That means it's difficult to fix. Not that it shouldn't be fixed.
>Unformatted:
