The account czars should be able to write on the account form that this group is needed as a secondary group, and have that done during account creation. Chuck Boeheim [log in to unmask] On Aug 30, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Wei Yang wrote: > Streamline the account creation and Atlas (secondary) group membership > require some changes to the SCCS account creation flow. > > I can add some text (or on Stephen's page) saying that Atlas local > users > also need to be a member of unix group 'atlas'. The current > procedure is > that Charlie and Stephen can add users to the group, or unix-admin > with > authorization from them. > > Wei Yang | [log in to unmask] | 650-926-3338(O) > > > Su, Dong wrote: > > Hi Charlie, > > It should always work at least that for each user after account is > > created, to send an E-mail to a designated person to ask for > granting > > the access manually. If we ask the account creation process to > > automatically grant the NFS atlas group priviledge if the new user > > specified affilication as ATLAS, I believe it saves work and > approval > > waiting time for everyone by eliminating one manual step which > everyone > > has to take anyway. We can still put same note on the SLAC > environment > > page to say that in case you cannot access the work area, send an > E-mail > > to the designated person for which hopefully only a small > fraction of > > people need to go through that. > > Su Dong > > >