In article <20020426015433.7ABB1AC@proven.weird.com>,
Greg A. Woods <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.ORG> wrote:
>[ On Thursday, April 25, 2002 at 23:18:40 (GMT), Christos Zoulas wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: bin/11047: newgrp is missing
>>
>> Nothing, that is why it was removed. It is actually a security issue to
>> resurrect the password field in /etc/group.
>
>what security issue is that?

needing a master.group file so that we don't have password cookies word
readable is one thing.

christos