On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:34:32PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 25/01/08 at 13:47 -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:58:45PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> >> It sounds to me like the bug is still present, but with a raised
> >> upper-limit.  I'd prefer that either the bug is fixed with no limit, or
> >> the program determines at runtime that the output is incomplete and
> >> shows a warning/error.
> >
> > I'm not sure at this point what the bug is. :-) Is id showing fewer groups 
> > than expected, or are you concerned that id is showing more groups than the 
> > kernel supports?
> 
> Also, am I right to think that it works fine if the user has less than 65535
> groups?
My understanding is that "id" and "id user" can output different
information when the current user is a member of a huge number of
groups.  Instead they should either do the same thing or note that the
output has been truncated.

Justin



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