I understand that when I check the “Automatically set as primary group” option in a group’s settings, the idea is that when a user joins this group, this group will become the user’s primary group, right? [image] Furthermore, the effects of setting a primary group in general have been well explai…

Yes If you have more than one primary groups (for example groups A and B) and a user of A enter in the group B, the last group (B) will be automatically set as primary. Admins can change the primary group for each user I don’t know about titles but in my memory some configurations of the gro…

4. So if I combine 1. and 2. that means that if I activate “Automatically set as primary group” for multiple existing groups, the order in which I do that matters (because the last one overwrites all previous ones (in case of overlapping membership), right?

[image] tophee: So if I combine 1. and 2. that means that if I activate “Automatically set as primary group” for multiple existing groups, the order in which I do that matters (because the last one overwrites all previous ones (in case of overlapping membership), right? Yes, in my case I have…

What exactly does "Automatically set as primary group" do?

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dax (Daniela) May 6, 2017, 8:42pm 4

Yes, in my case I have a single user in 2 primary groups. When I set the 2nd group as primary in his user setting the last group (2nd) became the primary

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What exactly does "Automatically set as primary group" do?

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