[NTLUG:Discuss] Number of groups per user in Linux

[Greg Edwards]

Chris Cox wrote:
> Greg Edwards wrote:
> ...
> 
>>
>> Just wondering how well Linux handles sub-groups?
>>
>> A sub-group being where username belongs to group A, and group A 

> 
> There is no such animal AFAIK.  Well... there are similar things but it
> depends on usage (e.g. netgroups, nested groups in ldap, etc.).
> 

> 
> If somebody knows different, speak up.  I deal with a lot of
> Unix...  so I can't just consider the Linux-only side.  Maybe
> Linux has something like nested groups... but not AFAIK.

This is a Unix feature.  Say that greg is a user and greg is a group. 
Then say the group greg is member of the group developer.  If the group 
developer is a member of the group apache then greg has group permissions 
to apache.  It's indirect, but works.

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