dsrich01@b.ee.engr.uky.edu (Dave Richardson) (12/14/90)
In article <1990Dec12.143540.13834@IRO.UMontreal.CA> quennevi@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Charles Quenneville) writes: >Hello! > >I would like to implement a password security in a program. For >example, I want to put in a public directory a program for just [remainder of question deleted] Why not add the needed users to a new group in the /etc/group file, and then when a (authorized) user wants/needs to run the program, they can just "newgrp usersgroup" to run it. Disclaimer - This is a SysV trick - I don't know about Berzerkley and relatives. Later, Dave -- Dave Richardson \ UUCP: !{rutgers, rayssd, uunet}!ukma!ukecc!dsrich University of Kentucky \ BITNET: dsrich%engr.uky.edu@UKMA.BITNET Engineering Computing Center \ ARPANET: dsrich@engr.uky.edu I don't speak for my employers and they don't speak for me.