[Fedora-directory-users] Getting Started, POSIX accounts

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:12 -0800, Susan wrote:
> 
> --- Michael Christian <mchristianjr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys.  I've installed FDS and the setup is killing me.  Essentially all I
> > want to use it for is Posix accounts and groups and I'm having trouble with
> > groups.
> > 
> > Getting user accounts is no problem, the attributes are aleady there, but
> > posix groups are from scratch?
> > 
> > If someone could point me in the right direction, or send me a link I would
> > appreciate it.  I've combed through the RHDS documentation and not been able
> > to find what I was looking for.
> 
> Groups are easy, what are you having problems with?
> 
> Just run migrate_group.pl script on /etc/group on a representative machine, that'll produce an
> LDIF you can import into your FDS.  Verify that the dn is correct and load it in.  
> 
> It puts all posix groups into an ou=Groups, which I found convenient.  From the UI, you can see
> all your posix groups grouped together under Groups.
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on a Red Hat system, it will default to Group and not Groups - I found
this incredibly confusing at first.
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> 
> If you are adding groups from the console, remember to highlight the Groups OU, right click, add
> new, "other" posix group.  I also change the index to the cn, instead of gid, that makes it easier
> to read.
> 
> You just have to decide whether you want to continue with the Linux standard where every user is a
> member of his own group.  As the number of users grows, that becomes a PITA.
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and pretty pointless for workgroups, domains, etc.

Craig