Group Permissions

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Steve,

Since Linux isn't Windblows, certainly there's another way other than a
complete reboot to solve this kind of issue.  If simply logout/login doesn't
work, then there must be something else involved; restarting that something
else (other service) should resolve the issue.  Perhaps, restarting ssh (or
hopefully you don't still use telnet...) would solve such an issue in the
future?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 2:36 AM
Subject: Re: Group Permissions


> 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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