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Subject: Re: Changing groups
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> > Here's my situation: I want have a user who is a member of three 
> > groups--say they are radio, tv, and newspaper. When the user logs in the 
> > group is set to radio, but then he has to go edit something for radio. 
> > How do I change the user's group from newspaper to radio.
> 
> I'm not sure what you are talking about. When someone is a member of
> three groups, that user is always a member of those three
> groups. There is no need to 'change' groups. If a user wants to change
> which group a specific file/directory is owned by, 'man chgrp.'

I believe he's looking for a FreeBSD equivalent to the 
Solaris "newgrp" command.  That is, when you create a file
that file gets a group ownership assigned.  If you are a 
member of several groups, only one of those groups gets
used to assign group ownership of the files you create. I
believe the question asked was how to get files created
by you to have a different group ownership.

Unfortunately, I can't answer the question.  I don't know 
of a BSD equivalent to newgrp.  

Dan Mahoney 
dan@wolf.com


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