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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:35:00 +0200
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Subject: Re: /usr/bin/sg in Cygwin?
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From: Cedric Blancher via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Good morning!

On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 at 07:39, Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> On 2024-04-19 17:47, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 22:25, Dan Shelton wrote:
> >> Is there a package which provides /usr/bin/sg (execute shell commands
> >> in a different group)?
>
> The POSIX standard command is newgrp - install cygwin-doc to see Cygwin (and
> newlib libc) man pages (and info, html, PDF docs), man-pages-posix to see POSIX
> man pages, and man-pages-linux if you want to see recent Linux release man pages.

Debian /usr/bin/sg (setgid analog to /usr/bin/su) comes from the
package "login" (https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/login), same
package as /usr/bin/newgrp. So maybe it just needs to be packaged by
whoever owns the Cygwin package for /usr/bin/newgrp?

Ced
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