On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:33:24PM -0700, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > At 20:25 on Oct 21, Stuart Luscombe combined all the right letters to say: > > > > > > Don't forget to log off and back on again after adding yourself to the > > > group. > > > > I did add myself into the group, but for some reason it didn't work. > > So I did a chmod.. > > Are you sure you logged completely out? If you are running X, this means > all the way out of X and it's parent shell (if you are running a *dm, > restarting the *dm). > > You can make sure it worked by logging in to a new shell (like a new TTY > or an SSH session) and doing the id or groups command there. Well, no, that's not strictly true. When you log in via your DM, you are starting another login shell (session) as your username. The X session you are talking to is running as root. So going back to your DM's login prompt is enough. -- Marc Wilson mwilson@moonkingdom.net mwilson@cts.com
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