swerc

commit 26008563545d12aec9a1ad0a12d06738580b37a0
parent 91c7010019b418428db97f807578f0127394960d
Author: uriel@soma <unknown>
Date:   Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:02:34 +0000

Documentation updates.
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sites/werc.cat-v.org/docs/user_management.md
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1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sites/werc.cat-v.org/docs/user_management.md b/sites/werc.cat-v.org/docs/user_management.md
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ A user account consists of a directory under `etc/users/` that contains files wi
 	% cat etc/users/uriel/password
 	mypass
 
-Groups consists of files named after the group name stored in `etc/groups/`, containing the names of the group members, one per line.
+Users and groups share the same namespace, you can create a group the same way you create a user but instead of a 'password' file adding a 'members' file containing the names of the group members, one per line.
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+A 'user-group' directory can contain both a password and members file, in which case it will act concurrently as a user and as a group.
 
 The group 'admin' is 'built-in' and any members in that group will have admin privileges for most werc apps by default.
 
@@ -20,8 +22,9 @@ Example
 To create a user called [glenda](http://glenda.cat-v.org) that is a member of the group `rabbits` you can do:
 
 	% mkdir etc/users/glenda/
-	% echo passw > etc/user/glenda/password
-	% echo glenda >> etc/users/rabbits
+	% echo carrot > etc/user/glenda/password
+	% mkdir -p etc/users/rabbits
+	% echo glenda >> etc/users/rabbits/members
 
 Utils
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@@ -29,3 +32,5 @@ Utils
 The script at bin/aux/addwuser.rc allows you to even more trivially add users. 
 
 	addwuser.rc user_name user_pass [groups ...]
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