Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 09:24:50 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: newgrp(1) Message-ID: <199605301624.JAA04672@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 30 May 96 12:36:13 %2B0200. <199605301036.MAA20437@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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>OSF has it. Is there a chance to get it also for FreeBSD?
[...]
> newgrp - Changes primary group identification of a shell process
[...]
> The newgrp command changes the primary group identification of the current
> shell process to group. You remain logged in and the current directory is
> unchanged, but calculations of access permissions to files are performed
> with respect to the primary group ID.
This is a SysV-ism. If I'm not mistaken, SysV needs this because you
can only be in one group at a time. This means you need to constantly
newgrp to change group access permissions if you're moving among
multiple groups.
BSD allows you to be in multiple groups at the same time, so makes
this command pretty much unnecessary.
This is how I understand it, anyway. I'm sure someone will correct me
if I'm wrong...
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