Apurdue.125 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!purdue!mab Thu Sep 10 14:51:25 1981 changing groups and newgrp I use a program called "sg", which acts just like "su" except that it changes groups; this is a bit better than "newgrp" because if you mistype your group name or can't change to the given group for any reason you don't get logged off. It's basically just like "su", so you lose your history list (if you're in C-Shell) or any unexported environment variables (if you're in the Bourne shell). To return to your login group, just exit the subshell. One note: it has to be run as setuid to root. Otherwise, you can't do the required setgid. Matt ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.