BSD file system
Chris Torek
chris at mimsy.umd.edu
Sat Oct 21 06:49:15 AEST 1989
In article <38688 at wlbr.IMSD.CONTEL.COM> sms at WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM
(Steven M. Schultz) writes:
>Another way of looking at the multi-group capability is that
>a process has a main/primary group - the one listed in the
>password file and multiple secondary groups as determined by
>the group file.
The rest of the system disagrees with your interpretation. In fact,
the only reason there is a group ID in the password file is because
there was one there before, and no one felt like changing the format
of /etc/passwd at the time.
--
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