[Gllug] Reason behind groups

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On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Alain Williams mused:
> 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.

NFSv3 and below have a 16-group limit.

I hit it frequently, and it's very annoying. It's one of the things
pushing me to InterMezzo...

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