ISC 2.2.1 groups != Sun/BSD groups

Greg Onufer greg at cheers.Bungi.COM
Wed Apr 10 11:37:01 AEST 1991


grant at bluemoon.uucp (Grant DeLorean) writes:
> Look up the man page for newgrp and it will explain a lot for you...

That's not what Tan (the poster to whom you are replying) wants to know.
newgrp doesn't figure into how BSD handles multiple groups (and how
Tan obviously wants them to work).  newgrp is the inconvenient S5'ism
to allow access to multiple groups.

Cheers!greg



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