On Tuesday 11 April 2006 12:57, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > Maybe I'm not doing something right. From KDE's konsole, I invoked a > new shell with "bash -l" and then ran "id" but it did not reflect the > new group. No you did nothing wrong. I double checked it and it's as I feared. You have to log out and back in for the changes to be reflected. Any new logins will reflect the group change, but not existing ones. If you ssh into your system that login will reflect the new group, just as if you logged out and back into X the changes will be reflected.
This is a shortcoming of the Unix strategy for dealing with users. They are immutable after they log in. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
