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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