Limiting a program's use to a specified group of users

[Dave Richardson]

In article <1990Dec12.143540.13834 at IRO.UMontreal.CA> quennevi at IRO.UMontreal.CA (Charles Quenneville) writes:
>Hello!
>
>I would like to implement a password security in a program. For
>example, I want to put in a public directory a program for just
[remainder of question deleted]

Why not add the needed users to a new group in the /etc/group file, and
then when a (authorized) user wants/needs to run the program, they can
just "newgrp usersgroup" to run it.  Disclaimer - This is a SysV trick -
I don't know about Berzerkley and relatives.

Later,

					Dave
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