The Sunday 2004-05-09 at 15:18 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I finally did a "groups" command, and I saw that my userid did not reflect itself as belonging to "kdev" - even though Yast (and /etc/group) clearly showed that it was. This didn't change until I logged off and logged back in.
I understand the system caching the group list for efficiency, but shouldn't the cache have been refreshed after I made the modifications? I thought Yast took care of that (obviously, I was wrong). Is there another way to force the groups list to be refreshed. Having to logoff - or reboot - is so ... Windows like.
You do not need to reboot, but simply log off your user session, and log in again. Those settings are read when you log in, so the behaviour you describe is absolutely normal. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson