Users & Groups not in Get Info options

When opening a Get Info window to change Sharing & Permissions, adding a new entry to the list shows maybe 4 options when the OS has dozens of users & groups. Why are standard options like "staff" not showing up?

I need to enable a folder to be read/write by "staff" for a specific application I am using, and the new GUI isn't allowing me to do that
What app is it? Why does it require you to do this? What folder is it that you want to modify? What are you trying to achieve? More then likely there is a better way to do it, or may not be needed in the first place.
Lasso web application. In order to execute file editing commands (read txt files, write them, manipulate uploads, etc), the target file/folder must have, under the POSIX rules of 10.4, either an owner of "lasso" (a user created by the software), or the group of "staff."
In order to make the source code files themselves easy to administer on the server, I typically have always left owner as the main user I log into the system with, and set group to staff. This is the most convenient configuration for ≤ 10.4 systems.
In 10.5, after copying files to servers I'm seeing a mixture in the Get Info ACL of {user owner}, admin, and everyone in some systems, and {user owner}, staff, and everyone in other systems. Haven't tracked down why the difference (I suspect preservation of permissions somehow during the copy). Even when staff is in the ACL, it's not a part of the options the GUI presents.
Anyway, I was trying to take advantage of the ACL in allowing two otherwise separate users/groups to have some shared access, and needed "staff" as a group for these files.
I didn't just use the chgrp command as I don't yet know the consequence of using POSIX commands on what I want to be ACL controls. So, am trying to do some digging into all that now. I was just thrown by the lack of visibility of all the usual user & groups options I am used to seeing in ≤ 10.4.

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