Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

[Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>]

Dr. Ed Morbius schreef:
> on 16:24 Wed 23 Feb, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. (bss@iguanasuicide.net) wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 February 2011 15:11:25 Carlos Mennens wrote:
>
> > > 3. Debian installer defaults to creating user group names which is just a
> > > mess.
> > Actually, I prefer user group names.  I'm not sure I have a really strong 
> > argument for them.  What facts support your assertion that they are "just a 
> > mess".
>
> The most compelling argument I could think of would be that NFS *still*
> only allows a maximum of (IIRC) 16 groups IDs to be associated with a
> given user.
>
> I said "most compelling".  I didn't say compelling.  IMO this is a
> severe deficiency of NFS (of which it's not particularly lacking
> otherwise).
Since when does nfs keep track of the groups a user belongs to? So how 
can nfs have a limit on the number of groups that a user can belong to?

Sjoerd

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