Although you can designate a user’s primary group by using various Windows® domain
account maintenance tools, that group name is not always returned when an
application requests the name of a user’s primary group (unless the user is
a member of only one domain group).
Rational® ClearCase® users
who are members of multiple domain groups must set the user environment variable
CLEARCASE_PRIMARY_GROUP to the domain-qualified name of the
Rational ClearCase users
group (for example,
NT_WEST\clearusers). This guarantees an unambiguous
definition of the group that
Rational ClearCase considers
the user’s primary group.
Rational ClearCase users
who are members of a single domain group do not have to take this step.
Note: CLEARCASE_PRIMARY_GROUP
must be a user environment variable. It cannot be a system environment variable.
The
value of CLEARCASE_PRIMARY_GROUP is used only when evaluating a user’s rights
to access a VOB. It has no other security or access-control implications.
Users who are members of multiple groups but have not set CLEARCASE_PRIMARY_GROUP
correctly are likely to have problems creating elements or otherwise accessing
VOBs, especially in complex domain configurations.
Note: Members of the Rational ClearCase users group
who are also members of the Rational ClearCase administrators
group must set CLEARCASE_PRIMARY_GROUP to the name of the Rational ClearCase users
group, not the name of the Rational ClearCase administrators
group.
To verify that CLEARCASE_PRIMARY_GROUP has been properly
set: