Subject: Re: bin/11047: newgrp is missing
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 04/26/2002 15:36:03
Ben Harris said:
>FWIW, my reading of POSIX is that newgrp need not have a group password
>mechanism. We can declare that passwords are never required for groups in
>NetBSD, and that users not listed as members of a group can never change to
>it.
The question is, is it good to change the way the BSD execution environment
works for users? Do you really want to type "newgrp xxx" "newgrp yyy" all
day? I can't find newgrp in any of the old BSD source trees.
The newgrp command happens to be one of the things that I dislike about
SYSV.
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