On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 14:42:32 +0000, "Carl D. Roth" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:29:41 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > So from a UNIX programming perspective, then, a test for group membership > is then: > > 1. is the user listed in the group membership list > > OR > > 2. is the user's primary group equal to the target gid
That's not how it is done. Processes have a group list associated with them. That list plus the gid are the lists a process is in. The main affect is that group membership is determined when a process starts unless something unusual is done. -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
