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From: bowen@wanda.SGI.COM (Jerre Bowen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: multgrps
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Date: 26 Nov 90 21:43:07 GMT
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In article <9011230236.7542@godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au>,
mg@GODZILLA.CGL.RMIT.OZ.AU (Mike Gigante) writes:
> 
> On Berkeley multiple groups, I would like multiple groups to be active 
> automatically. As I understand it from reading the release notes and
the manual
> entry for 'multgrps', it is started as a subshell just like newgrp(1)
> 
> I suppose I could just put multgrps in /etc/passwd, but that seems crazy
> I would have to manually set the env variable SHELL back to /bin/csh
> in the .login (or whatever)
> 
> (I just tried changing a user's login shell to /bin/multgrps and it
> just started eating CPU time and didn't successfully login.)
> 
> Any other suggestions? Is there any intention of making multiple group
> support the default?
> 
> Mike Gigante, RMIT Australia

	In our next release multiple groups will be activated by default in
all entry points to the system.

	Meanwhile, we activate them on a per-user basis by adding 'exec /bin/multgrps'
as the LAST LINE of the .login file.

		Jerre Bowen