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.
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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.