Handling ACL Groups

From: Brian Whiting (nospam_at_deny.com)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:16:34 GMT

I'm trying to figure out how the new ACL capabilities work relative to
membership in multiple groups. For instance under Novell, any user could be
a member of any or all groups. Whenever they accessed a resource, their
effective permissions were a sum of all the groups' permissions plus
whatever specific user permissions they had. The articles I found in Google
all assume member ship in one particular group. Does anyone know how the
group membership rights are processed, and if a linux client passes all
group memberships in its request for access to a resource like a windows
client does?