J.Purchase@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jan Purchase) (06/11/91)
Hello, I am not too well versed with some of the vagaries of SVR2 but would anyone explain why a job scheduled to run by at or cron under uid x does not run with all of x's group permissions. for example: mac% who am i admin ttyC1 Jun 10 9:51 mac% groups user bin sys root src mac% at now + 1 mins echo "my groups are `groups`" > ttyC1 ^D mac% my groups are user It seems that jobs initiated by cron or at have access restricted to their first group. Is there any valid reason for this? Security maybe? any help appreciated. Cheers Jan.