Group Membership Expansion: Guidelines for Deployment

Executive summary..........................................................................................................................2
Groups background........................................................................................................................2
Group membership expansion..........................................................................................................2
ngroups_max tunable................................................................................................................2
Dynamic tuning...........................................................................................................................2
Deployment scenario.......................................................................................................................3
Installing group membership expansion..............................................................................................3
Updating the HP-UX core..............................................................................................................3
Updating system utilities...............................................................................................................4
Updating applications..................................................................................................................4
Known limitations........................................................................................................................4
Performance considerations..............................................................................................................5
Summary.......................................................................................................................................5
Appendix: Enabling applications for groups expansion.........................................................................5
Terminology...............................................................................................................................5
Correct handling of supplementary group ID lists..............................................................................6
Incorrect handling of supplementary group ID lists ............................................................................7
For more information.......................................................................................................................7
Group membership expansion:
guidelines for deployment

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