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Managing local groups

You can manage local groups by creating or modifying groups, displaying information about groups and group membership, and by deleting unneeded groups. You can also perform other management tasks, such as renaming groups and adding or removing both local and domain users from the local groups.

  • Modifying local groups
    You can modify existing local groups by changing the description for an existing local group or by renaming the group.
  • Displaying information about local groups
    You can display a list of all local groups configured on the cluster or on a specified storage virtual machine (SVM). This information can be useful when troubleshooting file-access issues to data contained on the SVM or user-rights (privilege) issues on the SVM.
  • Managing local group membership
    You can manage local group membership by adding and removing local or domain users, or adding and removing domain groups. This is useful if you want to control access to data based on access controls placed on the group or if you want users to have privileges associated with that group.
  • Displaying information about members of local groups
    You can display a list of all members of local groups configured on the cluster or on a specified storage virtual machine (SVM). This information can be useful when troubleshooting file-access issues or user-rights (privilege) issues.
  • Deleting a local group
    You can delete a local group from the storage virtual machine (SVM) if it is no longer needed for determining access rights to data associated with that SVM or if it is no longer needed for assigning SVM user rights (privileges) to group members.
  • Updating domain user and group names in local databases
    You can add domain users and groups to a CIFS server's local groups. These domain objects are registered in local databases on the cluster. If a domain object is renamed, the local databases must be manually updated.