From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 30 18:36:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85AA41065722 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:36:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FB008FC18 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:36:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n3UIaZdl029676 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:36:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n3UIaZtM015687 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:36:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n3UIaXWK015686; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:36:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:36:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Harald Schmalzbauer Message-ID: <20090430183633.GD91578@dan.emsphone.com> References: <49F967C2.6040908@OmniLAN.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49F967C2.6040908@OmniLAN.de> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.1, clamav-milter version 0.94.1 on email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:36:35 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: group credentials cache in X11-session (xfce4, gdm) question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:36:36 -0000 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