Mount Problems - NFS under Wisconson BSD4.3 on Vax 11/780 and uVax

Tue Jan 24 19:21:02 AEST 1989

In article <592 at gt-eedsp.UUCP> jensen at 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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