Best way to do logins by group?

[William R. Knox]

Andrew,
Everyone has their primary group set to their login name as a kind of
security measure for the careless with umasks, as I recall. This was one
of the more annoying aspects of Red Hat's user addition programs, IMHO.
You should be able to change everyone to more sensible groups without
any danger to self or others, assuming that no one is using the machine
yet and expecting this behavior.

Good luck.

-- 
			Bill Knox
			Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
			The MITRE Corporation

Andrew Rittner wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I'm setting up a fileserver, running RedHat and Samba 2.0.6. This
> server will support about 80 people in several different departments,
> who all work under the same main unit. Each of the smaller
> departments has different requirements as far as shared resources.
> So what I'd like to do is create a login.bat for each department, and
> have Samba use it based on the group membership of the users
> logging in. The problem is, the only variables are for the primary
> group of %U. (%g and %G) Which is the same as the login name.
> Which is kind of useless, in my particular situation. Now, if I
> change everyone's primary groups to reflect their departments, I
> have a feeling it's going to hose something on the Linux side of
> things, since as far as I can remember, people have their user ID
> and group the same for a reason.
> 
> Short of making an individual login script for each person, and just
> using %U.bat in the smb.conf, what would be the easiest way to
> get around this problem?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Andy
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