From: Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gpasswd
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:29:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070906102923.5e4438c1@pascal.spore.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709061636.36906.wonko@wonkology.org>
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:36:36 +0200
Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> Robert Walter writes:
>
> > i've added myself to the vboxusers group with "gpasswd -a robert
> > vboxusers". when i do a "id robert" with root i see the added group
> > but when i start a new xterm with user robert i'm still not added
> > to the new group. how do i make the changes take effekt without
> > logout/login? i thought there was a command but i can't remember
> > nor find one :(
>
> I don't know of such a command, but at least "ssh localhost" allows
> to login without logout.
>
> Alex
>
existing programs will not load the new groups; for example, your
window manager that starts the xterm. i think `source /etc/profile`
might do it but not sure.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-06 14:13 [gentoo-user] gpasswd Robert Walter
2007-09-06 14:36 ` Alex Schuster
2007-09-06 15:29 ` Dan Farrell [this message]
2007-09-06 15:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-06 16:12 ` [gentoo-user] gpasswd [solved] Robert Walter
2007-09-06 17:27 ` [gentoo-user] gpasswd Alan McKinnon
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