Hi all, In an effort to run ppp as non root, I had to include my normal user id in the group 'dip' by directly editing /etc/group using vi. However, on saving and exiting /etc/group, I still could *not* access files owned by user root and available to users in group dip whilst using my normal uid. Just as I was about to give up, I decided to exit the shell and log in once again and to my amazement, I now could read files in /etc/ppp/peers directory whose permission is as follows:-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/ppp$ ls -ld peers drwxr-s--- 2 root dip 4096 Oct 2 12:06 peers How does one explain this? Is the file /etc/group cached somewhere and updated only so often? How can the changes be forced to take effect immediately without exiting and logging in again? Regards, Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
