Re: Users, groups and directory access

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

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    duncan brown wrote:
    > A.J. Bonnema said:
    >
    >>>Sounds like John just needs to log out and back in again. There's
    >>>little effective difference between primary and supplementary groups.
    >>
    >>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.
    >>
    >>Is gpasswd the wrong utility here?
    >
    >
    > do this for me, please:
    >
    > egrep 'john|proj' /etc/passwd /etc/group
    >
    > and post the results to the list. let's see what we're working with, first.

    Hi Duncan,

    Thanks for your reaction, but the problem was solved when I did a logoff
    from my X-session...
    Besides, I had changed my (dutch) names to english, so the grep wouldn't
    match my example.

    Thanks anyway.

    >
    > +( duncan brown : duncanbrown@linuxadvocate.net )+
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    >
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    (nice quote: no-one saw this one coming......)

    Guus. 

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