cc: [email protected] [email protected] Subject: Re: Re: [ast-developers] Usage difference between newgrp and /usr/bin/newgrp? --------
> Erm... note: You still have to call the external /usr/bin/newgrp > because it must be a setuid "root" binary to handle groups which are > normally not part of the users Unix credentials but are accessible > using group passwords (such password-protected groups are often used > on universities). > AFAIK it might be sufficient to execute it like a normal shell command > and not |exec()| it to replace the current shell process. > If you don't exec it, a new process is created. That is not the traditional behavior of newgrp which replaces the process with a new one. David Korn [email protected] _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
