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From: haque@dg.cs.umn.edu (Samudra E. Haque)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: System V newgrp
Summary: Usage and expectations
Keywords: group
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Date: 25 Dec 87 05:56:11 GMT
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Posted: Thu Dec 24 23:56:11 1987

I just had that happen to me too, except my root shell is /bin/csh.
I had mis-typed "newgrp operator" to "newgrp operatr" and the system gave
me a new csh .. with a standard "%" prompt. That is not what I would have
expected. It should have (at least in my opinion ) gave the Unix "standard"
"Usage: where-in-the-world-did-you-learn-to-type?" message, or maybe
"that group don't exist".

Just an annoyance.. I'm to much used to  BSD's su (1) which does switch uid and
executes their .cshrc for you. 

Now where did I put that Binary Editor?...

                  Samudra E. Haque
Computer Science Systems Group, Computer Science Department
     University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
(1)-(612)-625-0876 || haque@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu || haque@umn-cs.UUCP