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Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin



On Thu Jun 21 2007 at 18:12:03 +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Antti Kantee wrote:
> >As a purely personal remark, I'm glad we finally have newgrp(1), as I've
> >missed it on a couple occasions.
> 
> I thought newgrp(1) was superseded by supplementary groups, apparently 
> it's not.
> 
> Can you remind me where one uses newgrp(1) today - creating files with a 
> special group?

I forget the details, but it was something in an nfs+nis environment -
hey, I didn't say I need it today ;)

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Antti Kantee <pooka%iki.fi@localhost>                     Of course he runs 
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