On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:34:06PM +0100, Olaf Seibert wrote:
> On Thu 08 Mar 2001 at 10:50:42 -0800, Phil Nelson wrote:
> > 2) Under the current implementation in NetBSD, a user may belong
> > to a maximum of 16 groups.  Let me quote <sys/syslimits.h>
> > 
> > #define NGROUPS_MAX                16   /* max supplemental group id's */
> 
> In v7, one user could be in any number of groups but only one at a time.
> There was a (presumably shell-builtin) command to switch to any group
> one belonged to (setgrp, I think). BSD introduced the feature of being
> in multiple groups at once, and the setgrp command disappeared.

Nit alert - newgrp.
 
Regards,
Alistair