On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 at 13:31, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

> Grant,
>
> Mashey and crew basically did most of the original group work as part of
> PWB.   If you look at the Sixth Edition sources and the PWB 1.0 stuff, that
> is one of the places you will find differences.  With Seventh Edition (or I
> believe as part of the UNIX/TS work that Ken picked up), the Mashey group
> changes went back into the Research stream. With one of the predecessors to
> 4.2BSD (it may have 4.1A or 4.1B but frankly I have forgotten) Joy
> introduced the group scheme we all use today.
>
>
Looking at the TUHS archives, unless I'm missing something, 3BSD has groups
that appear to be in the modern format:

% ls -l /bsd/3bsd/etc/group
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 44 1980-01-02 22:08 /bsd/3bsd/etc/group
% cat /bsd/3bsd/etc/group
staff:*:10:bill,ozalp
grad:*:20:
prof:*:30:
% find . -name 'chgrp*' | xargs ls -l
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6960 Dec 30  1979 ./usr/bin/chgrp
-r--r--r-- 1 root root   26 Feb 12  1979 ./usr/man/man1/chgrp.1
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  754 Feb 12  1979 ./usr/src/cmd/chgrp.c

-Henry