On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 05:21:47PM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > How does one explain this? > Is the file /etc/group cached somewhere and updated > only so often?
at login and at "set user id" and at "set group id" time. > How can the changes be forced to take effect immediately > without exiting and logging in again? you can force it with the sg command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups charlie bin disk cdrom floppy audio irc src video staff games [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ marvin:/home/charlie# adduser charlie news Adding user charlie to group news... Done. marvin:/home/charlie# [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sg news [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups news charlie bin disk cdrom floppy audio irc src video staff games [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id uid=1000(charlie) gid=9(news) groups=1000(charlie),2(bin),6(disk),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),39(irc),40(src),44(video),50(staff),60(games),9(news) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ as you see my user wasn't part of the 'news' group, on another shell i added it as root, and again in my original shell (without logout) with sg I could force the information-update. charlie ps: up to now I did not know the sg command, just began to read couple of manpages, like those of group,login,passwd,bash ... so read the fine manual, please. -- Végh Károly - System Engineer - UTA - TIS.SAS.BSS Don't worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
