Thank you Ben and Richard for yoru replies. Well, Ben you are right, root can switch to any group without having to give a password. I also discovered the same as what Richard said. However, in case an ordinary user is not a member of a particular group and she/he tries to use the newgrp command to switch to that group with correct password, it always gave the error message: Permission denied. Read a lot of docs on it but still could not help. Regards, Vidol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard England" <rengland@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 1:06 PM Subject: Re: The newgrp command > > Ben Stringer wrote: > > >On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 12:17 +0700, Vidol Loeung wrote: > > > > > >>Dear All: > >> > >>The newgrp command seems simple to use. However, I could not use it or I did > >>not know how to use it. > >> > >>Could someone please explain me what teh problem is? I was logged in as an > >>ordinary user and type the command: > >>$ newgrp users > >>It asked me for the group password and I entered it but it said: "Permission > >>denied". > >> > >> > > > >Hi Vidol, > > > >You will need to be the root user to run this command. > > > >Try this: > > > >$ su - > ># newgrp users > > > >Cheers, Ben > > > > > > > >>Regards, > >>Vidol > >> > >> > >> > I don't believe that is strictly true. If the userid is included in > several groups, all the user has to do is type in "newgrp <newgrpname>". > However, if the user is NOT member of the group, then they are prompted > for the group password. > > Use the command "id" to find out what your primary group currently is, > and the command "groups" to find out what groups your userid is > currently a member of. > > --R > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
