I fail to see the confusion I think that it actually make life easier were you have very diverse user use. Here is an example, say you set up group that contains all the paths to Pictures, then you set up a group that contains paths to downloadable games.
You have three users User 1 has paid for picture usage so you just add that group to his group list, user 2 has only paid for games so you only add this group to his list but user 3 wants both Pictures and Games at this stage you have to create an additional group normally but what I'm suggesting it that you would just add both groups to his group list. You could still shift click multiple users and add the group (But now be able to select multiple groups) to all users in one stroke.
This is no different than a Appleshare Server users can belong to more than one group depending on the job they are doing. With OS's other than MacOS they take it another step and you can have more than one group added to a folder so you only need to add the user to one group. And if you really want to be confused take a look at novell were you have things like inhertied rights masks.
On 13/5/98 5:57 pm, Daniel O'Leary wrote:
>How would you resolve the issue of different access privleges within a >path common to both groups? I would rather NOT be confused by this and >cause a real seccurity problem on my site.
