Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gpasswd
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:58:26
Message-Id: 20070906164538.26a0f672@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] gpasswd by Robert Walter
1 Hello Robert Walter,
2
3 > i've added myself to the vboxusers group with "gpasswd -a robert
4 > vboxusers". when i do a "id robert" with root i see the added group but
5 > when i start a new xterm with user robert i'm still not added to the
6 > new group. how do i make the changes take effekt without logout/login?
7 > i thought there was a command but i can't remember nor find one :(
8
9 newgro vboxusers, but it only applies to the current shell (and anything
10 launched from it). To have all applications see the change, you need to
11 log into your desktop again.
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15 Neil Bothwick
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Re: [gentoo-user] gpasswd [solved] Robert Walter <ro-wa@×××.at>