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Title How to set up a member for two groups
Ref. No. QNX.000007766
Category(ies) Configuration
Issue In QNX 4.25 when we attempt to use the 'newgrp' command to change to a secondary group we get a message saying I'm not a member of the group and get logged off the shell.  How do we ourselfs part of two groups?


Solution The user must be added to the secondary group in the etc/group file (as the superuser).

'newgrp' is used to switch between the groups but it is looking at the etc/group to see if the user is a member of the secondary group.

For further details, see /etc/group in the 'Setting Up User Accounts' chapter of the QNX OS Installation and Configuration Manual.