Problem with groups

[Eric F Crist]

On Oct 21, 2005, at 3:12 PM, RW wrote:

>
>
>> From a KDE Root console, I changed a directory's permissions to  
>> 770 and added
>>
> my account to it's  group with pw. In another console, under my own  
> account,
> I tried to cd into the directory and failed, no gui application  
> could access
> the directory either. pw showed I was a member of the group.  I  
> logged in
> though a virtual terminal, under the same account, and was able to  
> cd to the
> directory. And once I restarted the KDE session from KDM, the  
> problem went
> away.
>
> Is this normal behaviour? Is there any way around it?
>
> I'm running   5.4-RELEASE-p8 if it make a difference.


You need to log out and then back in for new group memberships to  
take effect.  This has always been the way it works, and I don't  
believe this is going to change any time soon.

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