I thought I logged out/rebooted after I ran the adduser command, I'm kinda new 
to Ubuntu/Linux and may have missed that piece of info in the wiki or bug 
report I was reading.  
It just means I learned something. Which is a good thing.

> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 10:36:17 -0600
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Mobilinkd Tnc 1 Bluetooth tnc
> 
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Bryan Irwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So I would say that logging out is essential after running the adduser 
> > command.
> >
> 
> 
> Yes.  This is because your login process gets its identity from the
> system config when you log in (when the process gets created).  Even
> though you change the config file to update your identity, all running
> processes have the identity they had when they were created.  When you
> log out and back in, the new processes have the new identity.
> 
> A similar situation can require a reboot.
> 
> 
> -- 
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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