Re: Users, groups and directory access

From: A.J. Bonnema (abonnema_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: 05/05/04

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    Matthew Miller wrote:
    > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 07:40:01AM +0200, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
    >
    >>It still doesn't work. However, I checked the group membership of john
    >>after applying "gpasswd -a john proj" and -- even after exit and
    >>creating a new terminal -- the command "groups" does not show proj. It
    >>only shows john as group, while f.i. root has a whole bunch of groups.
    >
    >
    > Hmmm. What do you mean exit and creating a new terminal? He's going to need
    > to log all the way out -- a whole new session.
    >

    Well, I thought an exit from a terminal was enough (ignorant, I know).
    When I change /etc/profile it usually is. I found out it is not. When I
    logged off from X and thus created a new session, it worked.

    Guus. 

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