A database schema and set of access routines that define the relationship between groups, owners and members and provide secure, authenticated access to manipulating those relationships. Maintenance scripts that transparently incorporate database information into existing system administration procedures. In the following sections we provide a general overview of the design and implemention of each of these items and how they inter-operate, both within themselves and with existing CSE group administration procedures. It is thus instructive to review what these procedures are. All group updates must be filtered through this band of people who perform changes using a text editor.
Some groups appear only on research machines, others only within the instructional domain.
Thus there are actually two master group files, one for each administrative scope. Individual SAs periodically retrieve a copy of master file for their administrative scope. The DB organization itself is extremly simple. Create a new group with the given unique name. A list of initial owners may be specified.