The usermode package provides utilities for editing nearly all aspects of a 
*user* account. However, "advanced" *group* features are not supported.

In an effort to reduce sysadmin involvement in day-to-day "ownership" problems, 
it would be nice to enable the full gamut of group management features, 
specifically:

 * Assigning group administrators
 * Assigning "newgrp" passwords
 * Allowing group admins to add/remove users
 * Allowing users to "newgrp" from GNOME

To that end, I'd like to ask for:

* User Manager should have controls to assign administrative rights (for a 
group) to specific user(s), assign group passwords, and related fields in the 
GUI.

* Perhaps a separate tool? for users to launch to manage the groups for which 
they are the assigned administrator.

* Ideally, it would be VERY NICE (but probably a logistic nightmare) to 
allow "newgrp" from GNOME. (Probably would require taking this up on the GNOME 
lists, and require a very complex passing-around of the newgrp functionality to 
the Panel, Nautilus, GSM, &c.; i.e. "I've said it" but not worth bothering with 
for a relatively rare case.)