Edit an Existing Group

Editing an existing group allows you to change the group ID and what members are part of the group.

If you change the group ID you will see three options at the bottom of the menu concerning changing the group ID on files. If you changed the group ID and select no then files belonging to that group will still contain the old group ID.

Selecting the Home Directories option will change only files in users home directories while All Files modifies every file on the system in that group.

To delete the selected group click the Delete button.

The reason to change a users group would be to change their privileges. For example, if you want a certain user to be able to administer your EnGarde system you may add that user to the admin group. Perhaps you want a certain user to only be able to edit their own personal files and the Web files, you may add them to the www group. A brief explanation of the groups in the example above is explained below:

• [admin]The admin group will give a user access to some of the systems services. This would be good if you have other trusted users whom you wish to do administrative tasks such as maintenance, file cleanup and other needed tasks.
• [users]This is the group general users would be put in for e-mail access and basic system access.
• [mysql]The mysql group is primarily used for running the MySQL server. This is done for the same reasons as explained above in the admin description. The administrator will also have access to MySQL and all its databases.
• [named]The named group is used for the DNS server. This group is defined specifically for this task. By giving the DNS server it's own group helps increase security.
• [snort]Snort exists for the same reasons the named group exists.