Re: [9fans] Newbie question: groups

[Keith Nash <kjn9@citizenearth.com>]

>> How does the group leader add or remove a group member?

>he types commands at the console.
>where does it still say that?
>i thought we'd gotten rid of that lie
>in the documentation.

It's in the (admittedly rather old) first article in Vol 2 of the manual.  No wonder I couldn't find out how to do it from Vol 1!

I assume then that only adm can change group membership, by editing /adm/users at the fileserver console.

Giving group leaders the right to manage membership of their groups would actually be a very useful feature: Lunix people moan that user/group/world is too coarse-grained, and they want ACLs as well.  But user/group/world *and* ACLs reminds me too much of VMS permissions hell.

I rather like treating the group as the ACL: and the idea of a group leader, who can add or remove group members, makes it easy to provide fine-grained access this way.  Better still if a user can also create a group (without creating a new user with the same name).

Keith.