Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (The WITNESS) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: newgrp(1) - inconsistent Message-ID: <216@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 13:59:11 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.216 Posted: Mon Aug 6 13:59:11 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 00:58:20 EDT References: <753@aecom.UUCP> <4974@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: North Coast XENIX, Cleveland Lines: 18 Maybe a "sg" command should be supplied, analogous to su. On our system, certain users have access to a special group "prckill" which is used only temporarily (for security reasons on dialup lines) to forcibly logout abusive public-access users of the system without giving out the root password. (It allows use of a root-setuid, group-only execute file.) Currently, to use it I use an alias in my csh: alias drop '(echo "hangup \!*" | newgrp prckill)' but most users on our system are not willing to put up with the old (2.9?) csh we have, or for various reasons do not wish to run csh, and it would be much easier to say "sg prckill -c 'hangup ...'" than to have to play games with newgrp. -- Brandon Allbery: decvax!cwruecmp{!atvax}!bsafw 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, OH 44131 Witness, n. To watch and learn, joyously.