Hi all,
In an effort to run ppp as non root, I had to include my normal user id in the
group 'dip' by directly editing /etc/group using vi. However, on saving and
exiting /etc/group, I still could *not* access files owned by user root and
available to users in group dip whilst using my normal
Alphonse Ogulla wrote:
Hi all,
In an effort to run ppp as non root, I had to include my normal user id in the
group 'dip' by directly editing /etc/group using vi. However, on saving and
exiting /etc/group, I still could *not* access files owned by user root and
available to users in group dip
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 05:21:47PM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote:
How does one explain this?
Is the file /etc/group cached somewhere and updated
only so often?
at login and at set user id and at set group id time.
How can the changes be forced to take effect immediately
without exiting
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