on Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 04:49:46PM -0500, Paul Smith (psmith@nortel.com) wrote: > %% Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> writes: > > >> You may have to log out of your Xsession and log in again to get > >> shells spawned using the new/updated group assignments. (Is there > >> a more efficient way to do this? This seems really inelegant.) > > rl> More than that, I logged out and back on again from console and > rl> then restarted X. I had a feeling that was necessary, but perhaps > rl> it was overkill. But yes, it is inelegant. > > You do have to log out, but you don't have to restart X. Going back to > your GDM or XDM or whatever screen and logging in again is good enough. > > And yes, it's inelegant that you have to do this, but no there's no > better way. You can test it with the "ssh localhost" trick, but you > have to log out to have it set for your session. There's the 'newgrp' command if you want to avoid losing your X session and can stand winning just one shell at a time. 'sg' is somewhat analagous to 'su', though at atomic number 106. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Yes sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie. I put that envelope under that garbage. - A. Guthrie
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