<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Managing group directories</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Autodir HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Managing home directories" HREF="homedir.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Autodir options" HREF="aoptions.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Autodir HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="homedir.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="aoptions.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="AEN559" ></A >19. Managing group directories</H1 ><P >The <TT CLASS="literal" >autogroup</TT > module is used for creating group directories on demand for common group access. It can be used with Samba, for example, to dynamically create shared directories for a group of people.</P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="note" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="../images/note.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Note"></TD ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="CENTER" ><B >Check</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD > </TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >The <TT CLASS="literal" >autogroup</TT > module checks for the requested directory in valid groups from the system group database.</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="tip" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="tip" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="../images/tip.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Tip"></TD ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="CENTER" ><B >Using autogroup for the creation of home directories</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD > </TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >The <TT CLASS="literal" >autogroup</TT > module can be used to create home directories as well, provided that user private groups exist for each user. This way all group and home directories can be created in one place with one module. However, no skeleton files will be copied and the <TT CLASS="literal" >autogroup</TT > suboption <TT CLASS="literal" >nopriv</TT > should not be used.</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P >The <TT CLASS="literal" >autogroup</TT > configuration is the same as the <TT CLASS="literal" >autohome</TT > module, but unlike <TT CLASS="literal" >autohome</TT >, the <EM >virtual base directory</EM > can be placed anywhere and any name can be given to it. It is not dictated by system accounts.</P ><P >The module <TT CLASS="literal" >autogroup</TT > can be used with <EM >Autodir</EM > using the <TT CLASS="literal" >-m</TT > option. For example, <TT CLASS="literal" >-m /usr/lib/autodir/autogroup.so</TT >.</P ><P >All suboptions explained in <A HREF="homedir.html" >managing home directories</A > are the same for <TT CLASS="literal" >autogroup</TT >, except <TT CLASS="literal" >skel</TT > and <TT CLASS="literal" >noskel</TT >, as these are meaningless for the <TT CLASS="literal" >autogroup</TT > module. Additionally, there are other suboptions specific to <TT CLASS="literal" >autogroup</TT >. These are given below.</P ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="variablelist" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="literal" >nopriv</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >Some Linux installations use user private groups. If directories for these groups are not to be created, then use this suboption.</P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="homedir.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="aoptions.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Managing home directories</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Autodir options</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >