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Easier group modification than netinfo...
Authored by: woogli on Jan 11, '06 08:39:49PM

If you want a slightly nicer (and possibly more robust than using duplicate) way of modifying group memberships etc, and you are using Tiger, you should try downloading the server admin tools from apple (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/serveradmintools104.html). Most of the tools don't work without 10.4 server, BUT, the one that does work as much as you need is the 'workgroup manager' tool.

In that tool you have all sorts of useful things you can do, which you can't easily in just the client version. You can do things like 'lock' accounts, and so on. For example, I have a 'guestacct' account, which I only activate when I have people visiting, but the rest of the time, it's deactivated.

Most relevant to this hint, I used the tool to set up a 'photo' group, and an 'itunes' group, into which I put the users to gain access.

Thanks for this hint though, I was missing the umask and setgid pieces of the puzzle to make things 'elegant'.

Cheers.



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Oops ... one more thing
Authored by: woogli on Jan 11, '06 08:42:11PM

I forgot to mention ... when using the workgroup manager tool, you need to connect to "localhost".



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