Safeguard Reference Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

Group Commands
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ADD GROUP Command
ownership. It is subject to different restrictions, as described in Section 5, User
Security Commands.
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Although it is syntactically valid to create a group with a name that consists of all
numbers, HP does not recommend this practice. A numeric name might cause
confusion between the group name and group number even though the Safeguard
software can distinguish between them.
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HP recommends that group numbers from 0 through 255 be reserved for
administrative groups.
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Group ownership does not imply administrative control over the group members.
To alter a user or alias authentication record, you must own that record or be the
owner’s group manager.
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You need not own user or alias authentication records to add them to a group’s
member list.
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A single user or alias can be a member of up to 32 groups.
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There is no restriction on the number of members in a group. An administrative
group is limited to 256 members for administration purposes, but it can have
additional members for file sharing.
Examples
1. The following command adds a group definition record for the group named
shift1-admin. The group is assigned group number 656. The command includes a
description that identifies this group as first-shift administrators. No members are
added to the group.
=ADD GROUP shift1-admin NUMBER 656, DESCRIPTION All &
=first-shift system administrators
2. The following command adds a group definition record for the group named
ADMIN, which is assigned the group number 120. No descriptive text is included.
This group can later be activated as an administrative group because it
s name and
number meet the syntactical requirements for administrative groups.
=ADD GROUP NAME ADMIN, NUMBER 120
3. The following command adds a group definition record for the group named Target,
which is assigned the group number 320. Three users are added to the group: the
user names DEV.PAT and DEV.JAN, and the alias ArthurD. No descriptive text is
included.
=ADD GROUP Target, NUMBER 320, MEMBER (dev.pat,&
=dev.jan, ArthurD)
4. The following command adds a group definition record for the group named
MYGROUP1, which is assigned the group number 101. Wild-card character, *, is
used to add all users and aliases to the group. No descriptive text is included.
=ADD GROUP MYGROUP1, NUMBER 101, MEMBER *