Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 06:31:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Kevin Lyda <kevin@NDA.COM> To: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd) Cc: michaelv@HeadCandy.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: newgrp(1) Message-ID: <199605311031.GAA05588@nda.nda.com> 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
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