NIS and group access

by Ed Bree » Fri, 01 Jan 1999 04:00:00

Hi
I am setting up NIS under Debian 2.0 and
while I have user passwd and shadow passwords working,
groups isn't. Should the groups a user
is a member of be exported to a NIS client? Because under
my installation they arn't. The only group a user
on my nis client is a member is his or her user id
group. Any suggestions?

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1. cannot set up UMASK or groups so that users from one group cannot access other groups

First let me describe what I would like to set up to clarify things:

Scenario:

I would like to set up 3 groups, lets call them A, B, C. Users from A should
have access files created by users in B or C. Users in B or C cannot access
files created by users in A. Also users in B or C should not have access to
each others files.

How would I set up Umask to handle this? I've tried to create a primary
group for all and secondary groups to reflect the permissions I'm after, but
to no avail.

Any ideas?

Many thanks in advance.

Jon

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