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From: grant@bluemoon.uucp (Grant DeLorean)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ISC 2.2.1 groups != Sun/BSD groups
Message-ID: <1991Apr09.143925.6892@bluemoon.uucp>
Date: 9 Apr 91 14:39:25 GMT
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tan@bronson.uucp (Tan Bronson) writes:


>    The 2.2.1 concept of groups seems to be either broken or different
>than BSDs. On BSD uses multiple groups for file permission/access checking,
>but on 2.2.1 being a member of groups other than one's login group
>does not allow one to get access to files in those other groups!

 Look up the man page for newgrp and it will explain a lot for you...
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