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From: broman@noscvax.UUCP (Vincent P. Broman)
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Subject: Re: A question for all you UN*X experts
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 11:37:42 EDT
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> We have a question that maybe you can answer.  Does anyone out there know
> of any utilities that use the information in /etc/group?  We keep our file
> up to date, but have never noticed any system uses for this file.

just the obvious one-- it determines your group access permissions. On
4.2BSD at least, this is done by a call to initgroups(3X) in login.c .


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