On 03/20/13 06:13, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, King Beowulf wrote:
>
>> Sometimes it's the obvious stuff that bites us in the rump.  Also,
>> although reboot will work (as in Windows "when in doubt, reboot"), simply
>> logging out then logging back in will do it.
>
> Ed,
>
>     I considered just logging out and back in, but did not know if that
> sourced /etc/group. Since the Sony Vaio is a laptop it is used to being
> rebooted and I knew that would cause the appropriate utilities to re-read
> the group file.

To test after making a group change, you could also do something like
'su - richard'.  This will give you a new login shell.  You can then use 
the groups command to confirm your group membership.  There are probably 
other ways as well, like ssh -X localhost.

galen
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Galen Seitz
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