From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 21 20:23:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0743A16A41F for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:23:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F1143D46 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:23:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E195D51; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:23:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04287-03; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:23:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [199.103.21.229] (wonder.codefab.com [199.103.21.229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA47E5C8E; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:23:36 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200510212112.06996.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> References: <200510212112.06996.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <513FEB7B-7766-47AD-89F5-4ADADD7ACC16@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:23:33 -0400 To: RW X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with groups 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: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:23:41 -0000 On Oct 21, 2005, at 4:12 PM, RW wrote: > From a KDE Root console, I changed a directory's permissions to 770 > and added > my account to it's group with pw. In another console, under my own > account, > I tried to cd into the directory and failed, no gui application > could access > the directory either. pw showed I was a member of the group. I > logged in > though a virtual terminal, under the same account, and was able to > cd to the > directory. And once I restarted the KDE session from KDM, the > problem went > away. > > Is this normal behaviour? Is there any way around it? This is more-or-less normal behavior. When you change authentication information like adding yourself to a group, the existing processes you were running do not gain new privileges, but any new processes you start up should. You could have re-execed your shell, or restarted KDE as you did. -- -Chuck