[Bug 826] RFE: scp and ssh should have an option to set the group-id at login time

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http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=826





------- Additional Comments From roland.mainz at nrubsig.org  2004-03-31 11:03 -------
Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> As for the rest of it.. <shrug> write your own verison of newgrp.

Uhm... I hope this was thought as a joke, right ? :)

> I still 
> don't believe OpenSSH has any 
> business doing this type of tom foolery.

This is NOT foolery unless you think that the whole group-id system in
Unix/Linux is foolery, too. Unfortunately this was weakly (like the problem that
"newgrp" isn't usefull for non-interactive usage) implemented in the past. But
now people are working hard on it to get all Unix versions fixed. And Linux. And
FreeBSD; OpenBSD and even MacOSX. And this bug is part of this effort.

> Besides, even this feature was
> implemented in 2.9  it would 
> FAIL to work with 2.8 and below and SSH Corp.

If OpenSSH implements it I'll get SSH.com to implement it, too.

> So why bother implementing it?

See comments above.

> We will get more complaints then it is worth.

Who should complain ? The if both SSH.com and OpenSSH implement it others will
likely implement it, too. It will take some time, but that's the way new
features always go.



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