Hi all,

I have encountered a problem with user management that I can't find a solution to...

When a user requests access to a specific folder:

(I have a group called webteam which has access to all folders and is registered with SAMBA.)

1) I create a new group, add the user to that group and change the group of that folder(chgrp) to the new group.

2) I then add users from the webteam that need access to that folder to the newly created group.

3) I also add the new user to the webteam group so that I don't have to make changes to the SAMBA conf file
and restart SAMBA.

there are many flaws with this system:

a) adding users to the webteam group will give them access to folders that they shouldn't
have access to. but the only other option I know to solve this is to change the samba conf and restart samba
which I don't want to do....

b) its tedious to manually add users from the webteam group into the newly created group....

If anyone could suggest a solution to this problem that would be awesome...

thanks in advance,

J.C

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