Re: adding user to dip group doesn't work

[Justin B Rye]

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
 When you add a user to a group, they must log off of the system completely and
 log back in before the changes take affect.

You just need a fresh login - a new xterm won't do it, but su-ing to
yourself will.

  Run 'groups' as the user to ensure
 they are actually in the right groups.

Or id; and there's members (in its own package) to tell you
who's in a given group.
-- 
Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd

adding user to dip group doesn't work

[Mark Phillips]

Hi,

I have just added a user to my dip group so that I can run pon as this
user.  But it didn't work, because that user doesn't seem to have
access to the /etc/ppp directory etc.  This is really strange because
we have

drwxr-x---6 root dip

for the /etc/ppp directory.

Perhaps there is something that needs to be run before changes to
/etc/group and /etc/gshadow take effect?  If so what is it?

Cheers,

Mark.

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RE: adding user to dip group doesn't work

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 06-Feb-2001 Mark Phillips wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I have just added a user to my dip group so that I can run pon as this
 user.  But it didn't work, because that user doesn't seem to have
 access to the /etc/ppp directory etc.  This is really strange because
 we have
 
 drwxr-x---6 root dip
 
 for the /etc/ppp directory.
 
 Perhaps there is something that needs to be run before changes to
 /etc/group and /etc/gshadow take effect?  If so what is it?
 

When you add a user to a group, they must log off of the system completely and
log back in before the changes take affect.  Run 'groups' as the user to ensure
they are actually in the right groups.