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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Novice questions
Message-ID: <348@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 10 Mar 90 01:44:06 GMT
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In article <H82FP8W@xavier.swarthmore.edu> gessel@cs.swarthmore.edu
	(Daniel Mark Gessel) writes:
>How do you become a part of the wheel group without changing your group
>affiliation?

The NeXT follows BSD semantics; you can be in more than one group
simultaneously.  The limit is around 7, and comes from a coding
error in sunrpc services.

Each passwd entry contains a uid and gid for each user; this is
sufficient for users who only need access to a single group.
In many cases, the group facility isn't "needed" and users can
simply be assigned to the "other" group.

Each "groups" entry in netinfo has three properties:

	name: name of group
	passwd: * (for newgrp, which is not supported on NeXT)
	gid: integer value

An optional fourth property is "users" whose values are the list
of usernames who need access to that group, but it's not their
login group.

The easiest way to add someone to the wheel group is to use
NetInfoManager; select the wheel group and do "Edit Properties..."
(Command-e).  Click on users, type in a new value and use
insert or append to add it to the list.  To add someone to a
group that has no users property, append a users property,
change NewValue to the username you want, and do a rename.

					-=EPS=-