Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 00:41:44 -0800 From: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com> To: Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change group ID in a shell script Message-ID: <20010202004144.A30084@dell.dannyland.org> In-Reply-To: <87vgqteb00.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>; from antipode@thpoon.com on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:37:35AM -0500 References: <87vgqteb00.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>
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On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:37:35AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I'm writing a script to be run from cron that needs to execute a > command with effective group ID different from my login group. > > How would I change effective GID in a shell script? Linux has sg(1) > command for this purpose. I couldn't find newgrp command, either. Are you creating a file that then has to end up in a certain group, or something? Assuming you are in a group, you can do what you want just fine. If you have to set the group on a file you create, you can then just chgrp. -danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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