You can do
% newgrp <groupname>
and the shell that it is executed in will then show the change.
% groups
will prove that you are in the group currently.
But in order for new terminals that you spawn from an X session to have
the new group you must log out and log back in. That is correct.
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Zac Slade wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 12:57, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>> Maybe I'm not doing something right. From KDE's konsole, I invoked a
>> new shell with "bash -l" and then ran "id" but it did not reflect the
>> new group.
> No you did nothing wrong. I double checked it and it's as I feared. You
> have
> to log out and back in for the changes to be reflected. Any new logins will
> reflect the group change, but not existing ones. If you ssh into your
> system that login will reflect the new group, just as if you logged out and
> back into X the changes will be reflected.
>
> This is a shortcoming of the Unix strategy for dealing with users. They are
> immutable after they log in.
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