Re: setgid - its current use

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Thursday 08 April 2004 04:46, Dhruv Gami wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> A long time back there was discussion over setuid/setgid and how its been
> replaced by Capabilities (This is what i understood from the
> archives...please correct me if im wrong).
>
> I'd like to know the possibility of using setgid for users to switch their
> groups and work as a member of a particular group. Essentially, if i want
> one user, who belongs to groups X, Y and Z to create a file as a member of
> group Y while he's logged on as a member of group X, would it be possible
> through setgid() ?

it is possible through chmod
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vda
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