netbsd-users: Re: bin/792: su(1) ignores primary group, it and id(1) disagree with kernel on group membership

Subject: Re: bin/792: su(1) ignores primary group, it and id(1) disagree with kernel on group membership
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Downs <downsj@PEAK.ORG>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/11/1995 11:39:05

In message <199502110131.RAA29591@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>,
	Jason Thorpe writes:
>On Fri, 10 Feb 1995 16:55:21 -0800 
> Jason Downs <downsj@PEAK.ORG> wrote:
>
> > This is how UN*X has been for a very long time.  Changing it would
> > certainly `feel' wrong.  A newgrp(1) command might be nice, though.
>
>I thought that this is what initgroups(3) was for...I mean, I was under 
>the impression that login(1) did this for you...thus, ridding the user of 
>the need to use newgrp...

Exactly.  So if your groups change, you can run newgrp(1) to re-initialize
them.  Granted, just running login(1) again would this... But newgrp(1)
also allowed the user to specify a primary group.

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