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From: dsrich01@b.ee.engr.uky.edu (Dave Richardson)
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Subject: Limiting a program's use to a specified group of users
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Date: 14 Dec 90 15:13:29 GMT
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In article <1990Dec12.143540.13834@IRO.UMontreal.CA> quennevi@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Charles Quenneville) writes:
>Hello!
>
>I would like to implement a password security in a program. For
>example, I want to put in a public directory a program for just
[remainder of question deleted]

Why not add the needed users to a new group in the /etc/group file, and
then when a (authorized) user wants/needs to run the program, they can
just "newgrp usersgroup" to run it.  Disclaimer - This is a SysV trick -
I don't know about Berzerkley and relatives.

Later,

					Dave
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