Re: Changing groups
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 07:44, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
Average Unix systems don't exercise selective control of files by
users? If I want to make certain files only viewable or writable by
certain users, how do I do that other than by groups?
For example, say I supervise several teams working on a project. Each
person should have access to only the project directories of their
teams. However, some people are on more than one team. And as
supervisor, I'm a member of them all. I have exactly this situation at
work and cant' believe that my requirements are that unusual. At work,
however, we're Microserfs and setting the requisite access privileges is
trivial under NTFS. I'm trying to set up a similar situation on my home
LAN (a mixture of MS and Mandrake desktops with Debian servers) and
finding it difficult to do.
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