On Thursday 14 Aug 2003 11:47 am, Dan Jones wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 02:57, Richard Urwin wrote: > > Only that your group is inherited by processes that you start. If > > you do newgrp www and then start a file manager or editor from that > > commandline they will be in group www. > > I understand that. That's why I pointed out that I could execute > newgrp in a terminal and edit the file via vi.
Not just vi. Any X windows programs you start will also inherit the new group. > Of course, I could > run any other program from the command line as well, but doesn't that > defeat half the purpose of running a GUI in the first place? I get the feeling that *real* Linux users are heavily into the command line. And they are the ones doing the development. :-( -- Richard Urwin
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