Re: Preventing Read Access to a File

[Paul Sander]

Unfortunately, the newgrp command isn't available on many system, 
particularly BSD-based systems that don't have one of the popular 
shadow password packages installed.  Re-introduction as a native 
utility does not seem to be a priority.

On Feb 8, 2006, at 3:29 PM, Wiest, Damian wrote:

> Why not just use the UNIX group permissions system?  One downside is 
> that,
> depending on your policy, users may have to remember to issue the 
> newgrp(1)
> command.

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