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On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:14:59 +0200, sdoma wrote: |
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> Well, that was it. I'm quite surprised because I start xterm as |
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> ``xterm -ls'', which should provide a login shell but I had to |
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> logoff completely (terminating X and logout). |
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A "login shell" is not a new login; it just means that as well as |
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reading .bashrc (or the equivalent for your shell), it also reads |
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.bash_profile, .bash_login and .profile when starting up, and reads |
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.bash_logout on exit. |
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To add groups to the currently running process requires root |
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privileges, even if the user is configured as a member of the new |
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group. The usual methods to achieve this are logging out and back in |
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again, or using newgrp (though this starts a new shell, and only |
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affects processes started from that shell). |
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Peter Haworth pmh@××××××××××××××××××××.com |
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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our |
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ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit |
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to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who just happen to be |
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walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the |
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accident of their birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified |
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by the accident of their death." |
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-- G. K. Chesterton |
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