Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:36:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@OmniLAN.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: group credentials cache in X11-session (xfce4, gdm) question Message-ID: <20090430183633.GD91578@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <49F967C2.6040908@OmniLAN.de> References: <49F967C2.6040908@OmniLAN.de>
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In the last episode (Apr 30), Harald Schmalzbauer said: > I'm wondering why and how it comes that after altering /etc/groups `id` > doesn't give me the additional group, while `id harry` does. If I quit my > X session and relogin it works as expected. Does gdm cache credentials? > Hard to find useful documentation for gdm... "id" tells you the credentials of the current process, while "id harry" tells you the group memberships in /etc/groups. Your credentials are set when you log in, and do not change ( unless you are root and call setgroups() or initgroups() ). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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