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From: rick@comspec.uucp (Rick McCalla)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: newgrp type command
Message-ID: <1990Apr11.144444.12446@comspec.uucp>
Date: 11 Apr 90 14:44:44 GMT
Distribution: tor
Organization: Comspec Communications Inc., Toronto Ontario Canada
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We are currently running SCO Xenix 2.3.3 - 386 version.

The users on our system are all broken down into a variety of groups (gid)
and must change group association for each package that they want to run.  At
login they are exec'd into a aprogram that runs them through the various
packages.  When they need to run a package belonging to another group they
exec a program that has the sgid bit set to the appropriate group.

I am trying to find a way of using newgrp in a manner similiar to 
'su groupname -c "run this program' but am having no luck (newgrp also
creates a new shell).  Ideally this should be a little program that checks the
/etc/group file for access permission to the group and then changes the gid
and exits.  If no permission is granted by /etc/group then the program should
still exit without error but also without changing the gid bit.

This program would be used on a command line to prefix the calling of the
other program.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Rick

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