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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Mount Problems - NFS under Wisconson BSD4.3 on Vax 11/780 and uVax
Keywords: NFS,mount,problem,BSD4.3,vax
Message-ID: <15600@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 09:21:02 GMT
References: <592@gt-eedsp.UUCP> <595@gt-eedsp.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <592@gt-eedsp.UUCP> jensen@gt-eedsp.UUCP (P. Allen Jensen) writes:
>We just installed the Wisconson BSD4.3+NFS release ...
>mount ... sometimes give[s]  "Illegal Instruction (core dump)"

An NFS `authentication' goof strikes again.

There is room for exactly 8 groups in the NFS `auth' data.  The NFS
code assumes NGROUPS <= 8, and copies all the groups returned from the
kernel into the space for 8 provided.  Recent Berkeley BSDs provide 16
groups.
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