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The reason for this is that the connection between the data storage and the client server (e.g. academic computing cluster or nx) only sends a limited number of group IDs associated with your username.<\/p>\n<p>If you encounter permissions problems as described above, you can easily fix them yourself with the following command:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"nums:false lang:default decode:true\">newgrp group_name<\/pre>\n<p>This changes your current real group ID to the specified group_name during your login session.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that with the above command you can only change your primary group ID to security groups that you&#8217;re a member of. If you&#8217;re not sure, you can check which groups are associated with your username with the command:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"nums:false lang:default decode:true\">id your_username<\/pre>\n<p>If you require access to a group that you&#8217;re not a member of, the group owner can request this for you via a ticket to the IT service desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a member of many security groups you may encounter read\/ write permission errors in directories on the research storage even though you belong to the security group that owns the directory. 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