* [9fans] Newbie question: groups
@ 2003-03-03 21:31 Keith Nash
2003-03-03 21:37 ` Russ Cox
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From: Keith Nash @ 2003-03-03 21:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
How does the group leader add or remove a group member?
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* Re: [9fans] Newbie question: groups
@ 2003-03-03 22:00 Keith Nash
2003-03-03 22:23 ` Russ Cox
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From: Keith Nash @ 2003-03-03 22:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
>> 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.
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