GroupId versus Interworx

[pascal]

Hi

I need to limit background process to few users.
These users will have an siteworx account and a shell access

I think I will create a Perl pgm to do that as PAM is not fine to test only background process (not sure but when I setup limit.so for pam and limit the process for a user in limit.conf, PAM count the SSH process so sometimes the user can't login)

My idea is to have .conf file that setup limit by groupid. (I'll have few differents rules for 3-4 types of users so I'll create group)

Here is my question about interworx :
Is there any impact if I change the group of a siteworx account ?
I do not change files authority but only add siteworx users to a specific group

for example now I have a siteworx user testcom who has a testcom groupid
I'd like to change the groupid of testcom to group1

Thanks
ps : if you know a good tool to limit user background process it'll be welcome :rolleyes:

[pascal]

Here is my question about interworx :
Is there any impact if I change the group of a siteworx account ?
I do not change files authority but only add siteworx users to a specific group

for example now I have a siteworx user testcom who has a testcom groupid
I'd like to change the groupid of testcom to group1


Chris, Paul, could confirm me that there is no impact

Thanks by advance

pascal

[IWorx-Chris]

pascal,

Changing the group of a SiteWorx user could do some damage. Here's why: The SiteWorx UNIX group is used to do all quota calculations for a given user. If you change the group, then you in essence wash away all quota calculations. There are possibly other runtime problems but I can't think of any off the top of my head. If quotas aren't a big deal to you, feel free to try it out and it may be fine pascal.

Chris

[pascal]

Thanks Chris.
Quota is important for me....

Will try to find a solution for limiting the BG processes to user

Thanks again
Pascal