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From: Kevin Lyda <kevin@NDA.COM>
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Subject: Re: newgrp(1)
To: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd)
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 06:31:03 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: michaelv@HeadCandy.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de,
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960530194559.8571L-100000@sasami> from "Matthew N. Dodd" at May 30, 96 07:48:30 pm
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> [sasami]:/tmp> id winter
> uid=128(winter) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff) 0(wheel) 120(www) \
> 	126(ircd) 800(jurai) 801(halo) 803(brmug) 805(bofh)
> [sasami]:/tmp> touch test
> [sasami]:/tmp> ls -la test
> -rw-r--r--  1 winter  nobody  0 May 30 19:46 test
> [sasami]:/tmp> chgrp jurai test
> [sasami]:/tmp> ls -la test
> -rw-r--r--  1 winter  jurai  0 May 30 19:46 test
> [sasami]:/tmp> chgrp bofh test
> [sasami]:/tmp> ls -la test
> -rw-r--r--  1 winter  bofh  0 May 30 19:46 test

i'm not sure what this proves.  anyway, a newgrp command might be useful
in terms of file creation.  if you had a group of users that all shared
membership in group foo, a single newgrp at the start of the day
would help avoid access denied issues.

kevin