steve@cohort.UUCP (Steve Bird) (11/10/89)
Operating System : Xenix 2.3.1 Machine : Olivetti M380 - 386 I've had some curious results from using newgrp which I cannot explain. We have a user called joan whose group I want to change while she is doing word- processing. If I go newgrp wordpro [ the name of the group ] it returns Sorry. If I do the game thing myself I get the new group. Joans default group is group My default group is admin. I can find no other significant difference in our environments, but obviously I'm overlooking something. Here is some important data that may show what the problem really is: /etc/group group::50:steve,evan,alan,dave,rob,marion,fran,don,sonya,susie,angi,joan,sandra,lily,vic,adam,theresa,jack,doug,mark,rick,craig,carsten,ted,tom,bill,Doug,kevin,chris,keith,mike,hans,drew,peter,pierre,joe,word admin::304:alan,steve,dave,evan wordpro::305:joan,sandra,steve My environment : DATADIR=/usr/data/appl DEVDIR=/u/appl HOME=/u/users/steve HZ=50 IFS= LOGNAME=steve MAIL=/usr/spool/mail/steve MAILCHECK=600 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/u/users/steve/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/lib:. PROLIB=/usr/lib/pro SBTCOMPANY=00 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=ansi TERMCAP=li|ansi:al=\E[L:am:bs:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[2J\E[H:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:co#80:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:do=\E[B:bt=\E[Z:ei=:ho=\E[H:ic=\E[@:im=:li#25:nd=\E[C:pt:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:up=\E[A:kb=^h:ku=\E[A:kd=\E[B:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:eo:sf=\E[S:sr=\E[T:mb=\E[5m:me=\E[m:GS=\E[12m:GE=\E[10m:GV=\63:GH=D:GC=E:GL=\64:GR=C:RT=^J:G1=?:G2=Z:G3=@:G4=Y:GU=A:GD=B:CW=\E[M:NU=\E[N:RF=\E[O:RC=\E[P:WL=\E[S:WR=\E[T:CL=\E[U:CR=\E[V:HM=\E[H:EN=\E[F:PU=\E[I:PD=\E[G TZ=EST5EDT WPTERM=scocons Joan's environment. DATADIR=/usr/data/appl DEVDIR=/u/appl HOME=/u/users/joan IFS= LOGNAME=joan MAIL=/usr/spool/mail/root MAILCHECK=600 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/u/users/joan/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/lib:. PROLIB=/usr/lib/pro PS1=$ PS2=> SBTCOMPANY=00 TERM=ansi TERMCAP=li|ansi:al=\E[L:am:bs:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[2J\E[H:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:co#80:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:do=\E[B:bt=\E[Z:ei=:ho=\E[H:ic=\E[@:im=:li#25:nd=\E[C:pt:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:up=\E[A:kb=^h:ku=\E[A:kd=\E[B:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:eo:sf=\E[S:sr=\E[T:mb=\E[5m:me=\E[m:GS=\E[12m:GE=\E[10m:GV=\63:GH=D:GC=E:GL=\64:GR=C:RT=^J:G1=?:G2=Z:G3=@:G4=Y:GU=A:GD=B:CW=\E[M:NU=\E[N:RF=\E[O:RC=\E[P:WL=\E[S:WR=\E[T:CL=\E[U:CR=\E[V:HM=\E[H:EN=\E[F:PU=\E[I:PD=\E[G TZ=EST5EDT WPTERM=scocons I want to add, that sandra in the wordpro group has the same problem. This problem has chewed up so much of my time already, that I'll buy a beer for the first guy whose got the answer. ________________________________________________________________________________ cohort!steve (Bird) Cooper & Horton Ltd. - It doesn't cost to inquire. 1180 Lorimar Dr. Mississauga,Ont L5S 1N1 416-670-5110 fax 416-670-3988