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Cyrus

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« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2005, 12:02:47 AM »
No no no the lat-groups -n worked fine, it was when you then go and add or modify any groups using the server manager it checks and adds admin/www to each group, but as stated it can only add it to a certain number of groups, what I think happens is because the groups file gets parsed from the top to the bottom, only the bottom groups then have them added to them, thus taking them out of the top groups, which of course are root, www, and admin.

Maybe if you expanded your lat-groups script to actually replace the standard groups panel as the script runs fine, just whip up a panel page which runs it and replace the standard one with it?

And everytime it runs then just add admin and www to the groups it needs to be in for the core of SME to work properly, and also add the disclaimer that some groups might not work with ibays and the like. Just because I dont use ibays and stuff, I couldnt care less if these groups did have access to them, as long as the groups worked for emails I'd be happy.

Only problem is that I have no idea how to do that and how hard it would actually be to do. I know that there have been disscussions about this on the development mailing list as before I started this thread I did do some searching around to see if anyone else was having this problem.

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« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2005, 12:38:58 AM »
Quote from: "Michiel"

I already created an alternative solution (lat-groups -n), but admittedly it's a really dirty hack.


Sure, but we can't implement something which has the possibility of breaking the server-manager (something you have clearly stated every time).

BTW: my comment wasn't meant as an attack - I would really like to see a solution for this, while maintaining the existing feature set.

Quote from: "Michiel"

As I said in a previous post (and you know that better than anyone else), it would be a MAJOR task to change it now and only few SMEs really need more than 28 groups.


I'm pretty sure we (collectively) can come up with a solution if we think hard enough about it.

One partial solution would be to put www and admin into the groups only when web access is required. There would then be a non-deterministic limit to the number of groups, related to the number of web accessible i-bays.

Quote from: "Michiel"

That doesn't preclude me from regretting the design decision ;-). Maybe things could have been done differently at design time, but that's all water under the bridge. No big deal.


No, it's a very annoying limitation for the larger end of "SME".

Gordon
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« Reply #17 on: July 27, 2005, 03:20:31 AM »
Quote from: "gordonr"

I'm pretty sure we (collectively) can come up with a solution if we think hard enough about it.


Then again, it may be easier than we thought:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1245421&group_id=96750&atid=615772
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Cyrus

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« Reply #18 on: July 27, 2005, 03:35:51 AM »
And look at that, good old Charlie Brady, he probably was working on it to fix this limitation with the SME  :-D

Just a couple of questions, is it as simple as running:

[root@test7 ~]# id auser | fold -70

And Charly mentions this feature is in the latest kernel, is SME running it?