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From: dm@genie.UUCP (David Mischel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: group permissions and xdm
Summary: xdm setgroups fix
Message-ID: <773@genie.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 89 17:37:44 GMT
References: <936@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Organization: Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA
Lines: 22

In article <936@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>, wright@hsi.UUCP (Gary Wright) writes:
> When using xdm, my group permissions as reported by groups(1)
> are not set correctly.

on DEC 8650, BSD 4.3(tahoe), XV11R3--
i used initgroups in session.c to fix this:

#ifdef NGROUPS
        /*
         * setgroups (verify->ngroups, verify->groups);
         */
        initgroups(greet->name, verify->groups[0]);
#else
        setgid (verify->gid);
#endif


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