Apple 10.5 Leapard manual Reviewing a User’s Group Memberships, Adding a User to a Group

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Workgroup Manager displays long and short names for the group after you enter a primary group ID (if the group exists and is accessible in the search policy of the server you’re logged in to).

Reviewing a User’s Group Memberships

You can use Workgroup Manager to review the groups a user belongs to if the user account resides in a directory domain accessible from the server you’re using.

You can view all groups the user belongs to and the parent groups of those groups.

To review group memberships using Workgroup Manager:

1In Workgroup Manager, click Accounts.

2Select the user account you want to work with.

To select the account, click the globe icon, choose the directory domain where the account resides, and then select the user account in the accounts list.

3To authenticate, click the lock and enter the name and password of a directory domain administrator.

4Click Groups.

Except for the primary group, all other groups the user belongs to are listed in the Other Groups list.

5To view parent groups, click Show Inherited Groups. Parent groups are shown in italics.

Adding a User to a Group

Add a user to a group when you want multiple users to have the same file permissions, or when you want to manage their Mac OS X preferences using workgroups or computer groups.

For example, you can have groups for students in a classroom who are not permitted to use a particular printer, or for the quality control team in a factory that requires access to the internal reports of different groups.

Groups can include users and groups that are in an Open Directory domain or the local directory domain. If you use an NFS directory, there is a 16-group limitation.

You can also add users to a group using the Members pane in the group account.

If a user is a direct member of multiple groups, he or she can choose which group to acquire managed preferences from when logging in. You can manage Login preferences so that preferences are combined from all workgroups accessible by the user.

Note: There is no limit to the number of groups a user can belong to.

Chapter 4 Setting Up User Accounts