Do we really need passwords for groups [newgrp(1) and /etc/gshadow]?
Seems like a nice over-engineering.
By the way, I have fixed newgrp(1) in util-linux and shadow-utils 5
years ago. The password verification was pretty useless for years...
IMHO it would be better to mark whole /etc/gshadow as deprecated and
reuse "su --group <group> [--supp-group <group> ...]" code to switch
between groups, then we don't have to maintain separate newgrp code.
Note that newgrp(1) is available in shadow-utils and util-linux, sg(1)
is alias in shadow-utils. We have been successful with login(1), now
I'd like to consolidate newgrp(1) :-)
Comments?
Karel
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