[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: add two to the group, only one shows up?



High,

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Gary Turner wrote:

> I added myself (gt) to my dialout group.  Simple enough.  When I ran
> 'groups' dialout was not one of gt's groups.
> So I added my other user (garyt) to my group file.  su to garyt and run
> groups and there he is.  su back to gt, run groups -- not there.  Back
> to root, edit file reversing the order of the users (thinking to expose
> a syntactical error).  All to no avail.  garyt can join the group and gt
> can't.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this?
>
Have you relogged in after you added yourselfses to the group? I think a
simple logout and login will make you see that you are really added to the
groups.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan




Reply to: