User groups in user_list

System

Does anyone know which implications it will have if I use a local group instead of a singleuser in available_templates.cfg, (TS 5.0.1) in the user_list section?

Adam Stoller

The implication is that it will not work. The user_list directive is for userids not groupids.

Some folks have customized their available_templates.ipl / available_templates.cfg to handle groups - but these are *not* officially supported modifications.

At some point we might support this out of the box, but the obstacle has been figuring out how to write generic enough code to handle all the various situations (Windows: local groups, domain groups, PDC/BDC, Active Directory; UNiX: local groups, YP/NIS; both: LDAP, ...?)

This is why it's generally be handled in one-off solutions on a per-customer customization basis - if you only have one scenario to code for it's a lot easier. The downside is that it is unsupported and had better be very well documented so that when you upgrade your software you can re-implement the solution... unless we managed to come up with a reasonable way to do it out of the box...


--fish
(Interwoven, Curriculum Development)