Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:23:33 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with groups Message-ID: <513FEB7B-7766-47AD-89F5-4ADADD7ACC16@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200510212112.06996.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> References: <200510212112.06996.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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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
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