Nested management groups

[pingu]

Hi,

We’re just testing out some stuff on 10.4.8, we’d like to have a bunch of users in various management groups but with certain preferences such as PHDs applying to all the groups. In order to accomplish this we have set up the individual groups and then nested them within a group that applies the default prefs. This does not seem to be working though. The users get the overall prefs if they select the parent group on login, but only the sub prefs if they select the child group.

This [url=https://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20051102124001232&query=nested]article[/url] seems to suggest that it should work, but this [url=http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302727&coll=cp]one[/url] appears to contradict it. Does anyone know which is correct and whether this should work or not?

Cheers
Dan

[pingu]

Sorry Joel, it’s Monday morning, could you clarify a little for me…

We wanted to break the link between groups that we’re used for file permissions and management groups, to which end we went down the following line: –

group fp_Studio
group fp_Admin

group mcx_AllStaff
group mcx_Studio (Child of mcx_AllStaff)
group mcx_Admin (Child of mcx_AllStaff)

Bob_Designer is a member of fp_Studio and mcx_Studio

Carol_Accounts is a member of fp_Admin and mcx_Admin

mcx_AllStaff has a setting applied to configure all users to use PHDs, mcx_Studio has various settings that are specific to Studio staff and likewise mcx_Admin.

When Bob logs in he gets all the management prefs applied from mcx_Studio but we never see any of the mcx prefs from mcx_AllStaff applied. Is this what you were saying the behaviour should be? From your post I seem to understand that he would also inherit any file permissions from mcx_All, is this correct?

Can you think of a better way of dealing with this? We have many staff that need access to several depts files, but we only want them to have one set of mcx prefs, and yet there are some mcx prefs that just apply to everyone…

Cheers
Dan

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