On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote:
> David Grant wrote:
>> Rebooting is necessary for the "add user to group" change to take effect.
>
> Once the user has been added to the group, it's very easy to "upgrade"
> a running shell to use the new gid:
>
> exec su "${USER}"
>
> (What it does is of course to *replace* the current shell with a new
> shell, but beyond command line history not neccessarily making it
> "across" the difference is not very noticeable.)

Well this doesn't help if the application that is using libusb is a
graphical application and the user is launching it from the "start
menu" equivalent.

Dave

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