[Zope] supplemental group ids (Linux)

Kip Rugger kbr@pangea.ca
5 Sep 2000 13:35:06 -0500


Andrew Kenneth Milton  <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au> wrote:
>
>| > I saw this on Linux; supplemental groups come from the BSD tradition,
>| > so you likely will find the same situation on *BSD, Solaris, etc.
>
>Sorry I missed the start of the thread, but, I can weigh in on this point.
>
>Using -u user under FreeBSD gives you the Primary Group for the user you
>have requested. Supplemental groups are available only for that user, not
>the user you ran Zope as.

Interesting.  NetBSD has the Linux behaviour.

The Apache CGI wrapper does setgid and initgroups, in that order.