Arnau Bria <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Some of our users belong to groups with white spaces, something like:
>
> "Common Lab name1 surname1"
> "Common Lab name2 surname2"
>
> Notice that "common" is the same in all groups.
>
> With groups names like the above I'm seeing :
>
> 1.-) SGE collects Common as primary group for many users
> uid:                        32518
> group:                      Common
> gid:                        32000

I'm afraid it can't deal with spaces in such contexts, and the best
advice is definitely "don't do that" (not just for SGE's benefit).  Long
gnames aren't portable either.

> 2.-) I cannot define the entire group name as a valid entry in a ACL.
>
> 3.-) I cannot use gid as ACL entry (@32000) 
> from access_list man page:
>
>       entries
>               Only symbolic names are allowed
>
> So, I have two solutions here, 
>
> a) define each user as an ACL entry
> b) modify UNIX group name 

d) Put the relevant users into an ACL corresponding to the unix group?

> but I'd like c)
>
> c) use current gid name in SGE

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