2.2.17 and on and glibc 2.1.3 initgroups() sometimes fails

From: tmwg@inxservices.com
Date: Sun Sep 17 2000 - 12:44:03 EDT

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       The last snapshot I tried before 2.2.17 was 13. When I installed 2.2.17
    and 2.2.18pre9, initgroups fails sometimes.
       nssswitch.conf had the line:
    group: db files
       As a result, initgroups read the list from BOTH the db and from
    /etc/group, doubling the number of groups. For some users that exceeded the
    maximum, and the syscall failed with EINVAL.
       This may be the wrong syntax for nsswitch.conf. I haven't looked yet. It
    is new behavior, though.
       I haven't recompiled glibc. Its too big a pain. I just took "files" out
    of the lines for files that have DBs for them so both don't get read.
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