[CVALE] musical groups

[Patrick Bennett]

It was a purely hypothetical example chosen for, what I thought would 
be, clarity of purpose.  Sorry to have stepped on your ideological toes. 
{eye roll}

How about instead:

managers:x:1000: joe,tina,admin
staff:x:1001:jane,sam, at managers

That unknot your panties?

The point being, that *obviously* a manager is also a staff member.  
There is a need to allow/deny group access to files and devices, and in 
many real world cases these groups are *hierarchical*!  ("managers" need 
accesss to both the super-secret stuff  - like the staff's work history 
for instance - and all the stuff that a normal "staff" member has access to.

If your time is so invaluable as to needlessly sort needles from 
haystacks, because to handle things in a cleaner simpler way would 
contradict your abstracted principles of technopurity, then I beg you to 
waste your life.  Please.

In the meantime, my time is *very* valuable, and I need to get some 
things done.

    -Patrick



Pandora wrote:
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> The usual strategy for the /etc/groups file is to have cleanly separated
> groups, none of which overlap or encompass each other. I question what
> use you would have for an "administrator" account authorized to do
> everything. The fact we have the root account is bad enough; seen as a
> necessary evil for the purposes of simplicity. But beyond that it's
> supposed to stay separated. A user can be in any number of groups, but
> the groups should be for separate independant types of access, like
> xusers, audio, video, mounters, etc...
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