From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 08:10:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8442C16A4CE for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 08:10:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.sandvine.com (sandvine.com [199.243.201.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2ACC43D48 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 08:10:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from AdilK@sandvine.com) Received: by mail.sandvine.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:10:20 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adil Katchi To: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:10:19 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 05:16:27 -0800 Subject: switching between groups X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:10:22 -0000 I was just wondering if anyone has any ideas how it's possible for a user that belongs to multiple groups to somehow limit his or her own capabilities by using only one of the n groups that they belong to and be able to switch between these groups? For example, if userA belongs to groupA, groupB and groupC, can userA enter a mode that would force it to only belong to groupA (or groupB, or groupC)? UserA whould be able to switch between these groups and back to normal (ie. belong to all groups). Any help would be appreciated. Adil