NFS and the 16 groups
So, here’s one that someone else solved before me, but it’s really hard to find. Consider this a boost: https://www.xkyle.com/solving-the-nfs-16-group-limit-problem/ The story is: NFS mounts, group permissions and the group limit. Say you’ve got a filesystem mounted from a server over NFS. You’ve got a multi-user environment and a stack of groups to manage permissions, those groups are somehow kept in line by something like LDAP or active directory. You go to cd to a directory (maybe even the mount point) and get permission denied. Something like this: me@box~$ ls /data/somedir ls: cannot open directory /data/somedir: Permission denied (Yes, it’s an unorthodox mount point…) me@box~$ ls /data/somedir -lhd drwxrws--x. 21 notme group5 4.0K May 2 14:32 /data/somedir But you’re definitely in (for sake of argument) group5: me@box:~$ groups group1 group2 group3 group4 group5 group6 group7 group8 group9 group10 group11 group12 group13 group14 group15 group16 group17 group18 group19 group20