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Re: changes to /etc/group ?



Ron Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 17:43, Dave Sherohman wrote:

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:20:26AM +0100, Dave Selby wrote:

When I change /etc/group is there a way of updating the system so the changes are acknowledged without re-booting?

/etc/group is checked when the user logs in.  To gain access to
newly-added groups, just log out and back in.  No need to reboot.


Yeah, but what a pain when you've got a bunch of different programs
running in windows, multiple URLs loaded, etc, etc.

There should be a way to dynamically refresh the "group cache".


su <yourself>

only the programs that need the new group permissions would need to be restarted.

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