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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 3:10 pm Post subject: Update a user's groups without re-login?

Hi, I'm wondering if it's possible to update a user's groups without having to logout and login. If not, is there any real reason why we cannot do this? It seems to make sense to be able to do something like this _________________ Play ET? Come by #gentoo.et on freenode! http://syscrash.ca

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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 3:22 pm Post subject:

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Code:

newgrp <group>

It will only last for that session, and the user have to belong to that group (must be in /etc/group).

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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 3:28 pm Post subject:

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tln wrote:

Code:

newgrp <group>

It will only last for that session, and the user have to belong to that group (must be in /etc/group).

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