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- From: norton@gdwest.gd.com (Kent Norton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: weird interaction between AIX and HP-UX nfs
- Keywords: NIS, HP-UX group limit
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.125121.26601@gdwest.gd.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 12:51:21 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.073429.10490@colorado.edu>
- Followup-To: norton@starlab.csc.com
- Organization: Computer Sciences Corp.
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- In article <1992Nov16.073429.10490@colorado.edu> millert@nordsieck.cs.Colorado.EDU (
- Todd C. Miller) writes:
-
- >We have a lab that includes several rs6000's with home directories
- >nfs-mounted from a machine running hp-ux 8.07. Whenever someone who
- >is in more that 7 groups tries to log in (or I try to su to the person)
- >They get the following error:
- >NFS lookup failed for server nag: RPC: Authentication error
- >3004-614 Unable to change directory to "/home/staff/username".
- > You are in "/" instead.
- >
- >(nag is the hp-ux machine)
- >This doesn't happen on machines running mt Xinu MORE/BSD 4.3 or ultrix 4.1
- >with the dirs mounted from the same place. Does anyone know why this
- >happens and (hopefully) how to get around it?
- >
-
- According to an entry on the HP HPSL node, there is restriction on the number
- of groups that a user can be a part of at 8.07 *while* running NIS. At 8.07
- each user is allowed to belong to 8 groups. At HP-UX 9.0, NIS will allow
- users to be a member of 16 groups. This is apparently the same number allowed
- by Sun's latest NIS version.
-