On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 06:42:19PM +0100, Thomas Pircher wrote: > Brian wrote: > > On Thu 04 Apr 2019 at 12:54:52 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > (On Wheezy) I've been trying to add myself to the sudo group with the > > > usermod > > > command. > > > > vigr is your friend. > > I don't think this will fix OP's problem. > > rhkramer, you don't need to reboot your machine, but you need to > re-login in order to start a session with your new set of groups. > > If you do 'su $USER' on the terminal then this should start a session > with the new groups _in this session only_. > 'newgrp' is a bit nicer than 'su $USER', being that the latter can change your environment (depending on system settings).
> If you need the change globally (e.g. for applications you start from > the GUI) then you will have to logout and login again. > There is no way around this for a global update. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
