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[David Hummel]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Palit, Nilanjan
<nilanjan.palit-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> Actually I use newgrp occasionally. This is because NFS has a limit of 16 groups per user and if the group you want is not among the "first" 16 groups listed for your username, a newgrp (or a wash) can make it the current one. Why do we have/need so many groups? In a big company, for security reasons, every project, and occasionally a subdiscipline within a project, has a different group. For most day to day work I need only 1-2 groups, but occasionally something comes up for an older/different project and we need to revert back to the other groups to access those areas.

Same situation where I work.  This 16 group limitation is apparently
not the case with NFSv4.