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Re: Group



on Tue, Jun 25, 2002, Paul Mackinney (paul@mackinney.net) wrote:
> Carlos Sousa declaimed:
> > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:58:03 +0200 Jimmy Vil <jimmy@lingonpaj.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > If i add a user to a group in /etc/group, what shall i do to make my 
> > > changes work?
> > > I don?t think a have to reboot every time i change that file... :-)
> > > 
> > > / Jimmy
> > 
> > Logout and login again, no need to reboot.
> > 
> And no need to logout/login:
> 
> root does this:
> # addgroup user new_group
> 
> user does this:
> $ newgrp new_group

...required for each shell.  The logout/login is cleaner for an
interactive GUI session.

Peace.

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