Managing Groups

Goals

This page will show the procedures for performing various group management operations.

Display group members

• Open the Local User Manager

1. Click on Groups ; Observe that the list of groups appears in the right pane
2. Browse to group you want to inspect and Double click it

• Observe that the name of the group Students appears and beneath it, the list of users in it.

• Notice that in this case, no description of the group is given because the name of the group makes its membership obvious.

Creating a New Group

Don't we need picture to show how to find NEW GROUP?

• Open the Local User Manager
• Click on Groups

then Right-click on Groups and select New Group.

Alternatively, click More Actions under Groups in the far right pane; then select New Group

1. Type in the name of the group. In this example, a better name would be EJP Student Librarians
2. Type in a brief description of the function of the group and who it reports to
3. Observe the empty members box
4. To add members, click Add
5. Note: before the changes to a user's group membership are effective, the user needs to log off and log on again.

To select users for the group, type in the user name (firstname.lastname).

• To add more than one user at a time, separate the names with a semi-colon.

Next, click Check Names so the computer can verify that the user exists as typed in the database.

If the user name is correct, it will appear as shown.

• Click OK
• If it is not correct, re-type the user name and click Check Names again

After clicking OK, the two users will appear as members of the group.

• To add more, click Add and repeat the process, typing in more user names, checking names, clicking OK.
• To remove a user from the group, select the name and click Remove