Re: last call for setting group with newgrp...

On 10/6/2002 12:08, Will Partain wrote:

> But we have found this newgrp thing to be subject to the
> whims of various shells.  So I propose we do the ssh thing
> always, and do os.setgid('thegroup') to get to the group we
> want.  Death to newgrp.

Hmmm. Sorry, do you mean that you'll re-invoke ARK on the remote side, a la
the current mechanism for remote Python code? So it'll do:

    ssh remote /our/bin/ark thing --this-and-no-more method what

and then ARK will change group and invoke a local shell to do the
appropriate work?

Sounds like a sensible idea to me. Unless I've got it wrong in which case it
may be an even better idea ;-)

Jonathan

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