Bummer!
Thanks, guys.
Tony
Dan LaMotte wrote:
> You can do
>
> % newgrp <groupname>
>
> and the shell that it is executed in will then show the change.
>
> % groups
>
> will prove that you are in the group currently.
>
> But in order for new terminals that you spawn from an X session to have
> the new group you must log out and log back in. That is correct.
>
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> Zac Slade wrote:
>
>>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.
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