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This mnemonic phrase above is an easy way to remember your user and group structure: U>G>L<P. When you create a user, place him or her in a global group. Place global groups in local groups. Assign permissions to the local groups. While this may sound like overkill, it's necessary when running a multi-domain model of any type. The global groups are visible to all domains, while local groups are visible only to the local domain. This method allows you to easily add users to groups throughout the system via the appropriate global groups. Even if you don't run a multi-domain system now, you may do so in the future, so why cause yourself extra work later?