Daniel,

Setting up symlinks to the appropriate rules file is not a big deal,
so for the time being, I'll do that.

As for rule order, what you stated makes sense, but the tricky part is
the order in which a user's other groups are examined.  If I'm a
member of wheel, employees, authors, and editors (in addition to my
primary group), and there are authpf.rules files for each of those
groups, which one comes first?  As an admin, I would want the rules
for wheel.  The more I think about it, this feature would almost
require that we have a way to tell authpf exactly which group rules
files to search for, and in which order.  Is this getting more
complicated than it's worth?  Symlinks sound easier.  :-)

Chris

> No, authpf currently ignores users' groups when picking rulesets to
> load. I guess that could be a useful addition. If we can find an
> intuitive order. A user can be in several groups, one of
> which is his
> primary group. What order would you want for ruleset search?
>
> First try users/$USER/authpf.rules, if not found try
> groups/$GROUP/authpf.rules with the user's primary group,
> if not found
> try the user's other groups, and if not found, use the default
> authpf.rules?

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