group membership activation
Hi,
Running a fresh Jessie install on a laptop with GNOME.
Today I had to add a user (me) to a group (wireshark) for a program (wireshark gui) to work. At first I thought I did something wrong but after a reboot it did work, wireshark was able to see the interfaces.
So probably group membership is not determined at runtime but maybe at login or some other moment. Where can I find more info about this?
Is this a problem specific to a desktop environment of can I run into this with a straight CLI setup as well?
I know that in a Windows environment the group membership is added to the user token at login. Changes in group membership have no effect untill the user logs in again.
Bonno Bloksma
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