> What purpose do they serve ? > A System Manager can put the users in the appropriate groups > for their work. > I have never seen them used on any Unix system I have worked on, > and I seem to recall from some ancient documentation that they > are more trouble than they are worth.
(Please put blank lines between paragraphs or use bullets or indentation or something. This isn't a Poetry 101 forum. Thanks.) IRIX and Linux (and HP-UX?) had a "newgrp" command for changing your current GID (eg, "gid" from "id -g"). I've forgotten, but I suppose "newgrp" used the group passwords if they were defined. Users could change their GID to work in different projects. I'm not sure why FreeBSD doesn't have the feature, but I suppose someone thought that the SUIDDIR feature was sufficient. But I don't know what it would hurt to have the feature which needn't be used or could easily be disabled. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
