Thanks to all who replied, and thanks for the flattering comments ;-) The key for me was needing to do something like logging out and back in -- I haven't added myself to groups very often (if ever) (or manually created a user), and I just didn't think about something like that.
I like to think of myself as competent and experienced, but, with experience (and competence) comes age, and things like forgetfulness. (I may ask another question in a few minutes which may make everyone question my competence ;-) On Thursday, April 04, 2019 04:33:54 PM Brian wrote: > On Thu 04 Apr 2019 at 20:10:16 +0100, Thomas Pircher wrote: > > Brian wrote: > > > Which bit is an assumption? Experienced? I hope you are not questioning > > > his competence. > > > > No, definitely not, I have been reading this list for some time and have > > absolutely no reason to doubt his experience or competence. I wish I had > > stated that better. > > > > What I meant was that he might not know (or might have forgotten) that > > some changes to a system user are not immediately visible in active > > sessions. > > To my mind this is one of the more obscure features of the system one > > has to learn the hard way because it is not intuitive or obvious. > > Well said.
