On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:21:15AM -0500, Barry Mathieu wrote: > Try issuing the command, 'update-passwd' as root. Seems to work for me > for updating group status without logging-in & out.
thats really interesting since update-passwd has absolutely nothing
whatsoever to do with the group membership a particular user has in a
login session:
man update-passwd
DESCRIPTION
update-passwd handles updates of /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow
/etc/group on running Debian systems. It compares the
current files to master copies, distributed in the
base-passwd package, and updates all entries in the global
system range (that is, 0-99).
it is impossible in unix to add a new group to the list of groups of
an existing process, you MUST kill that process or else have a
privileged process spawn a new shell with the new group.
update-passwd will not do this. newgrp however will it is setuid
root. man newgrp.
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Ethan Benson
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