On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:38 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>> OK, I give up (again). Is there a way to become a valid member of a
>> group without logging out and logging in again?
> Strange.. on my F7 (and previous systems), newgrp works in that scenario.
> I always thought that having to login to have a new group membership
> honored was a big inconvenience, but settled for using newgrp as a
> workaround. Maybe you just mistyped the newgrp command?
I wonder if something has changed in newgrp. The man.page looks
really peculiar as far as enumerating the conditions under which
newgrp will work.
After logging out and in again, I can now run the VirtualBox programs
that require membership in group vboxusers. But I still can't "newgrp
vboxusers". I either get asked for a password or not, depending on
how I modify the entry for vboxusers /etc/gshadow. Either leaving it
as set up by the RPM installation (un-matchable group password) or
changing to indicate no group password.
In fact, by experiment, the only group that I belong to that I can
successfully "newgrp" to is "staff" which has no entry in
/etc/gshadow. So I don't understand. And this is wandering far from
newbie territory.
>
> PS: <heh> Now I need to ask: what is the recommended way to remove a
> user from membership in a group? ;-)
$ sudo /usr/sbin/vigr
Or probably with the GUI System -> Administration -> Users and Groups
carl
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