Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

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> There has to be _some_ solution but it doesn't have to revolve around

> groups.  Surely we don't need a separate box for every 16 projects ...

Again, are these groups only affecting files?  Then you may look into

other file systems, such as OpenAFS.  In OpenAFS you can use PTS to have

effectively far more than 16 groups.  However, the downside is that the

access is controlled at the directory level, not the file level.
I haven't looked in years, but maybe one of the 'descendants' of OpenAFS

might also be usable.
-Lars