From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gpasswd
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:45:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070906164538.26a0f672@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709061613.01345.ro-wa@gmx.at>
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Hello Robert Walter,
> 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 :(
newgro vboxusers, but it only applies to the current shell (and anything
launched from it). To have all applications see the change, you need to
log into your desktop again.
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 15:58 UTC|newest]
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
2007-09-06 15:45 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
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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