Re: newgrp feature request: -c option (like su)

[Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 05:47:27PM -0400, Keith Hanlan wrote:
> I've long wished for a version of newgrp that accepted the "-c <command>" 
> option in the same manner as "su".
>
> Perhaps I'm missing some security implication here but I've always been 
> puzzled by the absence of this seemingly obvious facility.

 Do you really need to use newgrp(1) from util-linux?

 The implementation from shadow-utils supports "sg" alias and the
 option "-c".

     sg <groupname> -c <command>

> Would it be reasonable to add it to the util-linux implementation?

 Well, from my point of view all mainstream distributions should to
 use the shadow-utils. I'd like to keep util-linux implementation
 compatible with shadow-utils, so we can port "sg" alias to our code.

    Karel

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