Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:51:09 +0000 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Propagate changes to /etc/group to logged-in users? Message-ID: <20080219205109.GA37705@torus.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <64c038660802191000n5372e1eew73bfe9d485d36c06@mail.gmail.com> References: <64c038660802191000n5372e1eew73bfe9d485d36c06@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:00:20AM -0700, Modulok wrote:
> Assume I have users logged in and I edit /etc/group...
> How do I propagate the changes to /etc/group to affect currently-logged-in
> users? I do not want to force users to logout, just to change group membe=
rships.
So far as I know, that's the only way. Any new shells they start up after
your changes should pick up the new values, but I don't think it's possible
to force changes out to existing sessions.
Dan
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