On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 06:54:34AM -0400, Dan Jones wrote: > Is there no way to change your group under a GUI? Executing newgrp > under a terminal only affects that session, not the parent GUI process.
You have to log out and back in again, I'm afraid. > If I set up groups and give them access to various files, can I only > access those files from a command line? Doesn't that defeat much of the > usefulness of having groups in the first place? Not really; on the average Unix system, groups aren't usually so rapidly-changing that the need to restart processes in order to acquire them is a major problem. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
