nice :) that worked $ newgrp vboxusers $ newgrp users (to change gid back to users) thank you all!
On Thursday 06 September 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Robert Walter, > > > i've added myself to the vboxusers group with "gpasswd -a robert > > vboxusers". when i do a "id robert" with root i see the added group but > > when i start a new xterm with user robert i'm still not added to the > > new group. how do i make the changes take effekt without logout/login? > > i thought there was a command but i can't remember nor find one :( > > newgro vboxusers, but it only applies to the current shell (and anything > launched from it). To have all applications see the change, you need to > log into your desktop again. > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list