/etc/group changes don't take effect immediately

2003-10-02 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
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

Re: /etc/group changes don't take effect immediately

2003-10-02 Thread Mental Patient
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

Re: /etc/group changes don't take effect immediately

2003-10-02 Thread VEGH Karoly
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