[aklug] Re: group environment configuration?

Actually I think this was bat'd about last year.... Unless things have
changed you will need to do some manual scripting to accomplish this
as I think aix is the only *ix that provides more than group membership

Good news is that it is easy enough to set up dot files for users that
manage this no matter your os or env

On Mar 10, 2010, at 10:37 AM, "Thomison, Lee" <ThomisonL@muni.org>
wrote:

> Hi all,
> What's the rhel5-approved way to handle group environment
> configuration?
>
> Let's say there are users in, oh, 4 different groups. Let's use the
> usual suspects:
>
> accounting
> warehouse
> admin
> netadmin
>
> and I want to set up environment variables and maybe some pathing
> that are specific to a given group. So that when 'joeblow', who is
> a member of group 'warehouse', logs in, the pathing and environment
> variables (and whatever else) that is needed for users in the
> 'warehouse' group is set up and configured.
>
> What I was initially looking for was an /etc/groups.d, and in /etc/
> groups.d is
>
> /etc/groups.d
> accounting.sh
> warehouse.sh
> admin.sh
> netadmin.sh
>
> As part of the login process, the group memberships for the login
> username would be examined, and for each hit the respective /etc/
> groups.d/ script would be run.
>
> I'm not seeing anything like that, so I'm assuming rhel5 uses some
> other mechanism, but I'm obviously not using the proper keyword
> mojo. Can someone point me to where this mechanism is described?
>
> On the same note, same question for ubuntu...?
>
> Thanks,
>
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Received on Wed Mar 10 14:32:46 2010