On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Richard Hartmann wrote:
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:09, Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf) <dirk.heinrichs.ext@xxxxxxx> wrote:Am Dienstag, den 06.01.2009, 17:32 -0500 schrieb ext Benjamin R. Haskell:I often find bizarre results when I've added myself to a group but haven't yet rebooted.Why would you? Re-login is enough.I assume he is using X and his terminal emulator does not start actual login shells but just spawns new one with the current ENV stuff. IIRC, in that case, you get weird effects.
Yes, that's the reason. (Though "weird effects" is limited to not having the new group's privileges.)
Still, there are several better & faster ways than reboot :)
Yes, three ways that have been discussed in this thread, two suggested by me...
1. (I said) Restarting nscd sometimes helps (though it doesn't seem to now)
2. (I said) alias Z=' exec sudo su - bhaskell'I used to do this often enough that I had an alias for it... and I didn't know about:
3. (I didn't know about) newgrp/sg - the commands designed for setting your group