[861] in NetBSD-Development
Re: PAGs and xterms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Thu Jul 6 17:29:01 1995
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 17:26:51 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU, netbsd-afs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of Thu, 6 Jul 1995 03:54:31 -0400,
<199507060754.DAA23488@glacier.MIT.EDU>
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 03:54:31 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Using a short program /mit/ghudson/tools/testpag.c, I determined that
under Ultrix, initgroups() doesn't strip out the PAG groups, whereas
under NetBSD it does.
It would be desirable to have the NetBSD initgroups() exhibit the same
behavior as the Ultrix initgroups(), so that we can give a pag to
users when they log in. I will attempt to figure out how this is done
under Ultrix and how hard/gross it would be to do the same under
NetBSD, but I don't expect to find anything out on my own.
This sounds like the "setgroups" system call has not been modified to
preserve the first two groups, if they indicate a PAG.
-Richard
