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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!newsserv.uni-bayreuth.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is there a free bsd equiv to SVR4.x newgrp? Date: 6 Apr 1996 14:31:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4k5v78$167@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4jhrcp$9nk@ns.hicom.net> <4k1j8v$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de> <3165F700.15FB7483@progroup.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Craig Shaver <craig@progroup.com> writes: (BSD doesn't need newgroup(1).) > I am not particularly pleased with this, since I think it could facilitate a > security problem. I would rather normal users have to use a newgrp. Just a > thought. The users don't get anything they could not get with the ancient newgroup. You're certainly the only one who complains about this. I once had to work in two different groups on a SysV derivative, and be assured, this is a real mess. > Under Solaris 2.x I can do something like: > > su news -c /usr/local/etc/rc.news This works with FreeBSD >= 2.1R || FreeBSD 1.1.5.1R. echo /usr/local/etc/rc.news | su news works for all systems, including older ones. Using a separate crontab for user `news' is IMHO better anyway. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)