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From: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: newgrp in shell programs
Summary: Any anomalous "gotcha" behavior with newgrp(1)?
Message-ID: <604@visdc.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 89 22:24:57 GMT
References: <124@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>
Reply-To: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Organization: VI Software Development, Boise, Idaho
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I have always wanted to ask this, and since Mr. Mohler has brought up
the subject:

	What if you login, su (one or more times) to another id that
	belongs to some other group, and then invoke newgrp with no
	options?

Do you end up in with the gid of the original login and the uid of
the latest su?

With respect to article <124@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU> bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU
(Bruce W. Mohler), I believe the couth way to invoke a command from
crontab is to use su -c.
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John E Van Deusen III, PO Box 9283, Boise, ID  83707, (208) 343-1865

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