On Wednesday, 11 March 2026 21:03:56 AEDT Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > For Debian I was inclined to remove the sg symlink (again), but that > seems pointless when the same difference exists in newgrp in the > first place.
Good point. I didn't notice that. FWIW, on my Arch system, which does not have sg deployed as a symlink: $ pacman -Qo $(which newgrp sg) /usr/bin/newgrp is owned by util-linux 2.41.3-2 /usr/bin/sg is owned by shadow 4.18.0-1 $ But more to your point, upstream have indicated that they wouldn't be adverse to accepting patches for newgrp to improve compatibility. https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/4098#issuecomment-4030146341 In the meantime, I made a little utility that does what I wanted. https://github.com/boltronics/newsubgrp Cheers, Adam
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