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From: crawford@ENUXHA.EAS.ASU.EDU (Brian Crawford)
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Subject: Somebody .  .  .  Eureka!
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Date: 15 May 91 03:54:45 GMT
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Thanks to all for the suggestions.

It turned out to be the gettydef configuration (I went through it 4 or 5 times
before posting the question - honest! :)  Just threw the 'SANE' back in to
the settings, and all is well.

While I'm rambling here, two more questions:

1)  If I were writing a few programs, where each program had their own
    separate group ID defined in /etc/group along with the users with 
    access to that group (along with the program attatched to it), how 
    would I switch the users's group within a C program in order to run 
    the program with as if they were part of that group?

    It is not possible to keep a user in one group, as I need to 'key'
    a set of programs by their own unique group somehow.  I've written a 
    program to read the /etc/group file myself and determine group membership,
    but thought I'd post this to possibly find a better way.

    I tried using 'newgrp' command, but alas, it doesn't work for 
    within a program.

2)  We do not always have someone present w/ super-user privs, and need to run
    'shutdown' from a few other accounts.  Could someone please recommend a way
    to shutdown the system down without superuser privilages? The 'shutdown'
    with this sytem (SCO XENIX 2.3.2) will only work from a super-user privs-
    even when the file ownership is changed at the command line.

Comments appreciated.
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