Unix group membership information disappears when a group has about 128 members
Issue
When a group has about 128 members, the group membership information is no longer handled correctly. In particular, running id
on a user in the group does not show their group membership.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
-
glibc-2.12-1.25.el6_1.3
or newer, includingglibc-2.12-1.47.el6
(from RHSA-2011-1526); Name Service Switch (NSS) configured (through/etc/nsswitch.conf
) to use thefiles
backend forgroup
information,
or -
nss_db-2.2.3-0.3.pre1.el6_1.1
or newer; NSS configured to use thedb
backend forgroup
information.
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