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.
