[Dovecot] running imap command line

Bill Cole dovecot-20061108 at billmail.scconsult.com
Sat Jan 5 22:27:44 EET 2008


At 11:53 AM -0800 1/5/08, Anil wrote:
>I don't think I am hitting the NGROUPS_MAX, my limits.h shows it to be 16.
>
># groups
>root other bin sys adm uucp mail tty lp nuucp daemon
>
>Thats less than 16.
>
>I think the setgroups() used in Dovecot is failing because of this error:
>
>      EINVAL          The value of gidsetsize is non-zero and less
>                      than  the  number of supplementary group IDs
>                      set for the calling process.
>
>What does that mean?

Either:

1. You are using some OS where the Standard C Library is badly broken 
by design.
2. You are using Solaris (or some related OS) and have mis-read the 
man page where that quoted text exists, but explicitly DOES NOT 
describe setgroups().



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Bill Cole
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