You can also use "newgrp name_of_new_group" in a pinch. This comes in handy when you're in a graphical session with lots of things going on and logging out would be inconvenient.
Of course, you'll have to do this for any new shell session until you've logged out & back in. Rob K6RBK On 11/07/2014 08:51 AM, Bryan Irwin wrote: > I thought I logged out/rebooted after I ran the adduser command, I'm kinda > new to Ubuntu/Linux and may have missed that piece of info in the wiki or bug > report I was reading. > It just means I learned something. Which is a good thing. > >> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 10:36:17 -0600 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Mobilinkd Tnc 1 Bluetooth tnc >> >> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Bryan Irwin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> So I would say that logging out is essential after running the adduser >>> command. >>> >> >> Yes. This is because your login process gets its identity from the >> system config when you log in (when the process gets created). Even >> though you change the config file to update your identity, all running >> processes have the identity they had when they were created. When you >> log out and back in, the new processes have the new identity. >> >> A similar situation can require a reboot. >> >> >> -- >> -Jason >> kg4wsv >> _______________________________________________ >> Xastir mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
