On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Mike C. wrote: > The way to do this without disrupting the user is to use the "newgrp" command: > $newgrp - audio
Mike, I tried 'source /etc/group' but that did nothing useful. I was completely unaware of the newgrp command, as I am completely unaware of thousands of other linux commands. Heck, I would not have known to look for such a command, either. > From newgrp man page: > "The newgrp command is used to change the current group ID during a > login session. > If the optional - flag is given, the user's environment will be > reinitialized as though the user had logged in, otherwise the current > environment, including current working directory, remains unchanged. Good to know. Thanks very much, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
