Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Setting up groups Message-ID: <6828@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 13 Dec 87 17:45:46 GMT References: <4718@well.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 9 In article <4718@well.UUCP> samlb@well.UUCP (Samuel B. Bassett) writes: > How do you assign a user to more than one group? On recent BSD-based systems, users are always simultaneously "in" all the groups having them listed as a member in /etc/group. On other UNIX systems, a process (i.e. "user") has only one group identity at a time. Use the "newgrp" shell built-in to switch to another group.