Group Setup - How to setup TAs and Professor users

• Add users (do 'man useradd' if you need a refresher)

  useradd

• Make the groups and add the appropriate users (should only be done once a semester, as root). The webwork courses group is wwcourses and the admin group is wwadmin. The TA and professors who will be running WeBWorK should be in the wwcourses group:
  • Determine the groups that wwserver is a part of. (call the output here <othergroups>):

    su -c groups wwserver

  • If wwserver is not part of wwcourses, add wwserver while maintaining the other groups that wwserver is a part of:
    

    usermod -G wwcourses,<othergroups> wwserver

  • For each ta or professor (with username ta_name), find out which groups the ta_name is a part of and then add them to wwcourses group:

    su -c groups ta_name
    usermod -G wwcourses, <othergroups> ta_name