ISC 2.2.1 groups != Sun/BSD groups

Grant DeLorean grant at bluemoon.uucp
Wed Apr 10 00:39:25 AEST 1991


tan at bronson.uucp (Tan Bronson) writes:


>    The 2.2.1 concept of groups seems to be either broken or different
>than BSDs. On BSD uses multiple groups for file permission/access checking,
>but on 2.2.1 being a member of groups other than one's login group
>does not allow one to get access to files in those other groups!

 Look up the man page for newgrp and it will explain a lot for you...
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