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Creating and Administering groups in WAM


Creating Groups

Just use:

pts creategroup $user:groupname

User created groups must have a name in the form of userid:groupname. The userid is the name of the account that created the group. It can be typed out in full, or the Unix shell variable $user can be used when you are dealing with groups your account created. Unless the user has altered their default shell variables, $user is set to the user's login id. You can use "echo $user" to check what $user is set to.
 


Administering Groups

Groups are administered using the same command you used to create the group but with slightly different parameters. 

pts adduser newuser $user:groupname
Adds userid newuser to $user:groupname.

 
pts removeuser deaduser $user:groupname
Removes userid deaduser from $user:groupname.

 
pts membership userid:groupname
Lists the members of the userid:groupname group. You can only list membership of groups for which you have permission to read the membership information. Should you need to alter these permissions, the AFS manual and online fs/pts man pages have the necessary information on controlling membership and rights.

You can not list membership of system:anyuser or system:authuser. These are special groups which do not have precomputed memberships.

AFS groups can be used in the ACL entry pair in place of users when you are issuing fs commands

fs setacl -dir directories -acl user:groupname access

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