Is there a list of groups in DoC that can be used in .htaccess files?
Users are added to groups on a fairly ad-hoc basis – the section head or supervisor mails us saying “add user so-and-so to group such-and-such” and we do it. There’s only one database table to contain all the user/group mappings, so there’s no logical structure to the information – there are no rules saying “users in this section go in this group”, or whatever. All the current definitions are stored in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. The unified and complete user/group mapping is also available in /vol/csg/public/share/apache/group.apache which is the file the web server actually uses. It is straightforward to see who is in which group using the group.apache file, and the ‘id’ tool on linux will also tell you which groups a user belongs to.
