[Typo3-linux] Problem using FE-Users

[Lars Duesing]

Hi List, Hi Kaspar,

First of all thanks to Kaspar and all contributors for a very nice CMS!
:)

I'm using Typo3 for a society which has many groups througout germany
and austria. The pages are at the moment only for deweloper of this
society, but I want to get it for public work as fast as possible :) 

We want to create pages for each group, which they can edit by
themselves. We use front-end-user to determine which person can view
further (internal) information. 
So each groupmaster should add people to his/her very own group, but not
to others - At the moment only admin could add. How to do that?
(Groupmaster is a designated BE-group for each Group, i.e. Muc-Admin for
the munich group, DUS-Admin for Duesseldorf Group and so on...)

another problem - in my eyes a very big problem - is that FE-User are
shown in userlist with password in cleartext (i did not find any way to
get rid of passwords in the lists). Due to many user use the same
password for each and every site, this is really not acceptable.
Furthermore I don't think such behaviour conforms with any Data
Protection Acts in Europe.

Could anybody help me?

Thanks in Advance,

Lars Duesing