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Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian



On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman
<sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> Dr. Ed Morbius schreef:
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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?

Both NFS and NIS had problems (and may still have) with a user being a
member of more than 16 groups.


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