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Re: Setting default group (newgrp ?)

I think I am resigned to newgrp being irrevocably broken on this
system.  Unfortunately, I am not root or anything, so I will just
chgrp when I need to and waste a bunch of time coordinating when I
forget....

Thanks, though to Ben and Uli

-W

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell <zsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Webb Sprague wrote:
>
>>> You can just use 'sg' to run commands under differnet groups without
>>> restarting your session.
>>
>> That is cool, but I definitely would like to fix the problem permanently.
>>  I am surprised that there need to be so many work-arounds....
>
> 'sg' is really just a convenient wrapper for 'newgrp'.
>
> $ l =sg =newgrp
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     6 2008-09-10 09:12 /usr/bin/sg -> newgrp
> -rws--x--x 1 root root 19684 2008-09-10 09:12 /usr/bin/newgrp
>
> So, that's one "work-around" that's not a workaround. Did it work in your
> case, though? I'd be surprised if it worked when 'newgrp' didn't.
>
> And the two tricks I mentioned are pretty stupid (but have worked for me).
> (I didn't know about 'newgrp' or 'sg' before this thread.)
>
> Best,
> Ben
>
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