[Dovecot] imap disconnects on my account only

[Karl Latiss]

On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 07:38, Chris Wakelin wrote:
> Looking at the getgroups manpage on Solaris 8, it seems the limit is 
> NGROUPS_MAX which is 16 in this case. The invalid argument return looks 
> like it might be :-
> 
> "The getgroups() function will fail if:
> 
>       EINVAL
>             The value of gidsetsize is non-zero and less than  the
>             number  of supplementary group IDs set for the calling
>             process.
> "
> 
> but looking at the 0.99.14 code, I can't see how this can happen. My 
> guess is that the Fedora version will return EINVAL if the number of 
> groups is larger than 16.
> 
> If so, this is an OS limit, not a Dovecot one.
> 

As far as I'm aware the groups limit until recently has been 32. In RHEL
4 (and maybe FC3) the limit has been increased (to what number I don't
know, but see
https://www.redhat.com/archives/taroon-list/2005-May/msg00175.html)

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Karl Latiss <karl at designit.com.au>
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