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Aucbvax.3059 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Thu Sep 10 12:10:34 1981 Re: chgrp >From CSL.JLH.MOGUL@SU-SCORE Thu Sep 10 12:04:22 1981 Re: newgrp I've got a new "newgrp" that is less idiotic about what you can do: it lets you enter a group if you are (1) a listed member (2) already in it (3) have it as your login default (4) can supply the group's password (5) are super-user and does NOT log you out if you make a typing error (it starts a new shell without changing your group id.)

Since #4 is pretty useless if there is no way to set a group's password, I've also got a grppasswd program, just like passwd but for /etc/group.

If you want the program run as a subshell, you can make a link to newgrp (e.g., "newgroup") which the shell will, of course, execute as a subprocess.

Interested parties may ask me to mail them a tar-format file with these two programs and their manual pages. -Jeff -------

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