On Apr 3, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Stijn De Weirdt wrote:
hi bas,
we would like to organize our users in groups wrt eg fairshare.
one thing that is aboslutely unclear to me is how maui sees the
concept
of a group. the documentation on this is rather thin and yes, i
could
check the code but sending emails is easier ;)
the documentation suggests that a groupname (ie what you must put
between [] in GROUPCFG[]) corresponds to a regular group in linux.
but i still have questions:
a. how is this checked? is this group the primary group of the
user or
does maui scan all groups to check if the user is a member?
If you have the latest maui version. Just read the changelog and see
that secondary groups are also
supported:
{{{
FSSECONDARYGROUPS TRUE
}}}
i quickly scanned the relevant code. so maui collects all groupnames,
and then checks if the user is a member of that group. the first group
that has this user, is the group used (i'm going to guess that the
groupname list is constructed by parsing the maui.cfg from top to
bottom, in case users are member of multiple groups).
for Fairshare an user can only belong to one group. Maui parses the
file and then we know all fairshare groups and the code checks if the
user is a member of this unix group.
thanks a lot for pointing this out (and for the patch ofcourse ;)
your welecome
stijn
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Bas van der Vlies
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