[OpenAFS-devel] New subcommand for pts

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Monday, February 14, 2005 03:50:03 PM -0500 Jeffrey Hutzelman 
<jhutz@cmu.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On Monday, February 14, 2005 08:02:27 PM +0100 Sven Oehme
> <oehmes@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> we have introduced a new subcommand for pts  ..
>>
>> it adds and removes a user to or from a list of given groups with one
>> command.
>> if the user doesn't exist, he creates the user and adds him into the
>> necessary groups .
>>
>> see some examples :
>>
>> localhost# pts help setgroups
>>
>> pts setgroups: Set a user into a fixed list of groups
>>
>> Usage: pts setgroups -user <user name>+ -group <group name>+ [-cell
>> <cell name>] [-noauth] [-force] [-help]
>> Where: -noauth  run unauthenticated
>>        -force   Continue oper despite reasonable errors
>
> This isn't really a basic operation, and given that the AFS architecture
> allows users to create and manage theor own groups, I wouldn't expect it
> to be a common operation, either.
>
> It can't be done atomically, because the ptserver only provides
> interfaces to add or remove a single group membership for a single user
> at a time.
>
> Why does it belong in 'pts', instead of in a script?

FYI...
This is ticket #17600 in RT.

Please don't copy any followups to this thread to RT, as it will just
result in lots of new duplicate tickets.

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