Group Permissions

[Gregory Nowak]

As far as I know, if you add a user to /etc/group, all you need to do is have the user log out, and back in in order for groups to reflect the changes.
Greg


On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 01:32:49AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Quick security question: I added a user to the adm group in my
> /etc/group file today but couldn't get the contents to be reflected
> until I rebooted the system.  Is there a way to "reload" the contents
> of /etc/group without a reboot?
> 
> I'm running Slackwarre 8.1 with a 2.4.19 kernel.  I didn't see
> anything obvious in the man page for group.
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