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Re: new user in group=reboot?



On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 04:07:24PM -0500, serge delorme wrote:
> I added my user account to some groups both with adduser
> and gpasswd and on their respective files in /etc "user" was added
> to the groups but I had to reboot to make the changes effective...
> 
> There must be a way of making the system read the changed files without
> rebooting...

Yeah, you log out, then back in.

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