Help for groups
The INQUIR system requires all users to belong to one or more
groups. These groups roughly coincide with the research groups in
the Lab, and are used for a few different purposes:
- Access control: certain people can be designated as group
administrators and have the ability to modify the account information
of users in their groups, and approve new users on behalf of their
supervisors.
- Display: when the INQUIR database is queried using the FINGER or
WHOIS protocol, a user's group affiliation will be displayed as part
of the output.
- User interface: when new users sign up, they must select the
group first, to make it easier to find the correct supervisor.
The following groups are currently accepting new users: