Hi, as a user on a linux system I am member of the groups "users" and "design" with users as my default group. To controll the accessibility of some parts of the file system, creation of files and directories in those parts must be done with group "design". This is currently done manually with "newgrp design" on the command line before doing anything else. I have been looking for a way to execute this command as a part of a script, but it seems that the changes are only valid in the context of the script and when the script exits, the current shell still have the original "users" group setting. It looks like the command spawns a new command line in the context of the current xterm as I get back to my old command line when exiting (instead of the xterm dissapearing)
A possible alternative could be to have the python script launch a new shell, but I still have the problem to set the group id for that new shell (lack of python knowledge). I am happy for any advice. Maybe it is simply not possible to do this kind of operation from a script in python on linux. -- kind regards, Svenn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list