getgroup invalid argument in /var/adm/messages

From: Schubert, John [NTWK SVCS] (jschub01_at_sprintspectrum.com)
Date: 07/23/03

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    Hello,
    I have an error message popping up in the /var/adm/messages file for sshd that reads:
    Jul 19 04:31:35 omp sshd[21167]: [ID 800047 auth.crit] fatal: getgroups: Invalid
     argument
    Jul 19 05:33:19 omp sshd[15334]: [ID 800047 auth.crit] fatal: getgroups: Invalid
     argument
    and continues to repeat with irregularity. I have searched through the Man pages for SSH, SSHd, performed a Google search on the context of the error, and searched the list archives here. I also looked through the sshd_config file for anything out of the ordinary, and it looked ok. I have about 350 machines running SSHd, and I checked a handful of the others and they did not have the errors listed above.
    Any ideas on what is happening or where I can look? SSHd is running and allowing people to log in. This is OpenSSH_3.2.3 (p1) installed on a Sun Netra T1120 server running Solaris 8.
    Thanks,
    John

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