Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:29:07 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why can't I write this file? Message-ID: <20040309142907.GA37091@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040309141025.GB16123@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040308212749.GC894@alex.lan> <20040308214225.GA95503@dan.emsphone.com> <6.0.0.22.0.20040308165050.104aea98@pop.face2interface.com> <20040309141025.GB16123@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:10:25PM +0000, Matthew Seaman typed: > > Yes, quite. Your login credentials are established when you login to > the system and only then -- that's when the limits of what you're > authorized to do are set, which includes amongst other things which > groups you're a member of. So you have to log out and back in again > to pick up any changes to /etc/master.passwd or /etc/group. Actually, when there's a change in /etc/group, you can use "newgrp <groupname>" to add the new group to your credentials without logging in again. It's not exactly the same, but it does the work. Ruben
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