On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 17:01:24 +0000 (+0000), Nick Chalk wrote:
> I didn't know about that NFS limitation. Cutting
> Alex out of some of the unneccessary local groups
> avoids the problem.
> 
> The nsswitch.conf has files before ldap, to work
> around a problem with udev starting before
> networking. I think I need to dig into nsswitch a
> little deeper, to see if there's another work
> around.
One place I used to work used netgroups to handle this - IIRC there
was some nesting - a group contained a list of netgroups (each
netgroup could "only" contain 64 names?)  Yes, the exports file was
rather on the large side!
Adrian
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