Adding Groups to Groups
 

Using a GUI how to you add one group (with users) to another group (with other users)? In other words if you add Group A to Group B then B has all of the users from A plus its own.

When you then add more users to A they will automatically show up in B.

Also how do you set the rights for each group using the GUI?

It's not possible. You can only add users to groups. Alternatively, you can create a GUI which does such actions by internally knowing that all users added to/removed from some group have to be also added/removed from the other. And, if you don't know how to do such application, you can write on such application "wishes list" to do so.

A GUI applications that work with users and groups is KUser. You can go to their app page and add this "wish". If they really don't like your idea, you can do a fork of the app (KUserAdvanced, for example) to acomplish your wish. And, again, if you don't know programming, you can pay someone(s) to do so ;)

Regards,
emi

I'm not so sure it's not possible. I remember asking the same question and doing some research to find the answer to this same question. I was pretty new to Linux at the time, but I think I got it working.

I think it was some obscure ability that I can't find documentation on any more.

If I remember correctly (and I may not) - Assuming group1 is supposed to become a member of group2, you could add group1 into group2's definition in /etc/group. But there was some sort of special marker to define group1 as a group. I don't remember if it was a %, @ or what. But after I did that, it seemed to work for me.

I posted my findings here at LQ, but that was some time ago, and it appears my post has been expired (no longer listed).

Thanks
 

This is one area where Windows (nested groups with assignments) is a little more advanced in this area.

Not agree at all.... Have you tried to install emule on wLive? User permissions are not obvious: too difficult and possible recursions, no text files to touch (really nasty, ¿uh?), possibility to add positive and negative groups, etc. I largely prefer linux groups, where you can easily see if a user belongs to a group or not and then, if s/he has write permissions to a file (for example).

For a 'masterization' of groups like said before, it's preferable a program that does the work for you and for the system (group nesting should also take system recurses if the chains get too long or recursed).

So, again, make your own program (and share it, of course :D ) to pseudo-nest groups on /etc/group .

Just a note: may be SELinux can help doing this kind of things but... it's a part of Linux I really know nothing about.

Unfortunately, linux does not support nested groups. However, you could probably achieve something close to the end result you are after by using filesystem ACLs. If you could provide an example of one of the "end results" you are looking to achieve, perhaps we could come up with a viable solution.

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