Group Permissions

[Steve Holmes]

I figured that and tried my task before and after logout / login with
that account and it still didn't work; rebooted the box and then I
could do it with that user.

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 03:42:40AM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 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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