Re: Changing groups
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 06:54:34AM -0400, Dan Jones wrote:
> Is there no way to change your group under a GUI? Executing newgrp
> under a terminal only affects that session, not the parent GUI process.
You have to log out and back in again, I'm afraid.
> If I set up groups and give them access to various files, can I only
> access those files from a command line? Doesn't that defeat much of the
> usefulness of having groups in the first place?
Not really; on the average Unix system, groups aren't usually so
rapidly-changing that the need to restart processes in order to acquire
them is a major problem.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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