On Oct 21, 2005, at 3:12 PM, RW wrote:
From a KDE Root console, I changed a directory's permissions to
770 and added
my account to it's group with pw. In another console, under my own
account,
I tried to cd into the directory and failed, no gui application
could access
the directory either. pw showed I was a member of the group. I
logged in
though a virtual terminal, under the same account, and was able to
cd to the
directory. And once I restarted the KDE session from KDM, the
problem went
away.
Is this normal behaviour? Is there any way around it?
I'm running 5.4-RELEASE-p8 if it make a difference.
You need to log out and then back in for new group memberships to
take effect. This has always been the way it works, and I don't
believe this is going to change any time soon.
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