From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: The Unix Heritage Society <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Will someone please explain the history and usage of gpasswd / newgrp / sg?
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 09:51:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202111151751.1AFHp1ln896624@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a04c7d8c-e9e1-4714-70a3-affc570bd871@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
Grant Taylor via TUHS writes:
> Does anyone have any interesting stories related to group passwords /
> gpasswd / newgrp / sg?
Well, the most interesting one that I can remember was that there was
a bug in 4.1BSD ?? where if you did newgrp and typed in an incorrect
password it would make you root.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-15 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-15 16:11 Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-11-15 16:26 ` [TUHS] [COFF] " Arrigo Triulzi via TUHS
2021-11-15 17:51 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2021-11-15 18:29 ` Clem Cole
2021-11-15 18:46 ` Henry Bent
2021-11-15 18:51 ` Clem Cole
2021-11-15 18:54 ` Warner Losh
2021-11-15 18:56 ` Clem Cole
2021-11-15 19:09 ` Henry Bent
2021-11-15 20:17 ` arnold
2021-11-15 21:37 ` Clem Cole
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