BTW....<div><br><div> I already know about the following (and wrote the following code). I'd rather log them into the group during the execution of the script, though, if I could:</div><div><br></div><div><div> # Must be logged into bpg group</div>
<div> if not os.getgid() == _BPG_GID:</div><div> sys.stderr.write(</div><div> "\nERROR: You must be logged into bpg group! See: man newgrp\n\n")</div><div> sys.exit(1)</div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Glen</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Glen Jarvis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glen@glenjarvis.com">glen@glenjarvis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I know.. I know.. RTFM :) I usually do the digging myself. However, I'm not finding what I think is probably there.<div>
<br></div><div>My users are in two Linux groups, A and B. The script that I'm writing should log them into B (newgrp B from the linux prompt).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Since Python 'fits your brain,' generally, I would expect something like os.newgroup('B'), os.newgrp('B'), or os.logingroup('B'). I'm not finding, it, however.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Anyone know this off the top of their head?</div><div><br></div><div>If there's no library, am I guaranteed to retain the group if I use subprocess? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Glen</div>
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