From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 19 20:51:14 2008 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 45DEB16A418 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:51:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org) Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org (cpc5-cmbg1-0-0-cust497.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [86.6.1.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE20D13C46A for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:51:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org) Received: by catflap.slightlystrange.org (Postfix, from userid 106) id 798B26194; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:51:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from torus.slightlystrange.org (torus.slightlystrange.org [10.1.3.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by catflap.slightlystrange.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE7986187 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:51:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from danielby@localhost) by torus.slightlystrange.org (8.14.2/8.13.4/Submit) id m1JKpA9x037882 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:51:10 GMT (envelope-from freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:51:09 +0000 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080219205109.GA37705@torus.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <64c038660802191000n5372e1eew73bfe9d485d36c06@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <64c038660802191000n5372e1eew73bfe9d485d36c06@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-PGP-Fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-RC2 i386 Subject: Re: Propagate changes to /etc/group to logged-in users? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:51:14 -0000 --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHu0E9ixf5fBYiFmoRAkRCAJ9ymopQSfvcoDfAUl8SQaClNmyCvQCeNBEb jdMClA50/UGnNqdfs2Qwsy0= =LRQY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3--