[Gllug] Reason behind groups

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:50:53AM +0100, Walid Shaari wrote:

> how many groups can a single user join in? (e.g. in Solaris 8 I believe
> its like 16, and thats one reason for use of ACL)
> 
> is there a similar default limit in Linux?

Beware ... it is not just the operating system that you need to worry about.
I remember having nightmares a few years ago with some (PC ??) NFS clients that got very
upset when a user had > 8 groups.

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Alain Williams

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