RE: getgroup invalid argument in /var/adm/messages

From: Schubert, John [NTWK SVCS] (jschub01_at_sprintspectrum.com)
Date: 07/24/03

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    Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:13:51 -0500
To: "Ramin Dousti" <ramin@cannon.eng.us.uu.net>

    The only assigned groups I'm aware of are the GID assigned within /etc/group. I decided to take a look at the server's /etc/group file and was astounded. Their group file was thousands of lines long, with dozens blank or containing only a single name for a group. I have a script that we built for rogue systems which we were taking over sys admin duties that also have a group file out of control. So I will run this script and see if the nagging alarm goes away.

    There were so many lines, I couldn't tell you how many groups are in the file. I would estimate 18-25.

    Thanks..
    John

    On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:20:34PM -0500, Schubert, John [NTWK SVCS] wrote:

    <SNIP>
    > To ask the next logical question: Where is the NGROUPS_MAX set and the number of groups the calling process is a member of? I'm a relative newby to programming, but would the calling process group list be found with as simple of a command as "groups root", since SSHd is called by root by /etc/rc2.d/S77sshd ??
    >
    <SNIP>

    And the question still remains, does sshd belong to many groups on your system?

    Ramin
    > <SNIP>

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