Group permissions are broken?

Ruben de Groot mail25 at bzerk.org
Tue Aug 16 11:27:28 UTC 2011


On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 05:39:31PM -0700, Yuri typed:
> On 08/15/2011 13:10, Dan Nelson wrote:
> >As a sanity check, what is the output of the "groups" command?  If you
> >recently edited /etc/group, maybe you need to log out and back in to a
> >credential with the new group list?
> 
> Reboot cured the problem.

Reboot is a very rigourous way to log out and back in again. You should
have tried that first.

> Is this because some other command should be run to enable /etc/group 
> changes?

No. Just loggin out and back in

> Is it cached somewhere?

No

Ruben


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