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 -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
