Re: /etc/group changes don't take effect immediately

2003-10-02 Thread VEGH Karoly
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 05:21:47PM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > How does one explain this? > Is the file /etc/group cached somewhere and updated > only so often? at login and at "set user id" and at "set group id" time. > How can the changes be forced to take effect immediately > without

Re: /etc/group changes don't take effect immediately

2003-10-02 Thread David Z Maze
Alphonse Ogulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In an effort to run ppp as non root, I had to include my normal user > id in the group 'dip' by directly editing /etc/group using > vi. However, on saving and exiting /etc/group, I still could *not* > access files owned by user root and available to us

Re: /etc/group changes don't take effect immediately

2003-10-02 Thread Mental Patient
Alphonse Ogulla wrote: Hi all, In an effort to run ppp as non root, I had to include my normal user id in the group 'dip' by directly editing /etc/group using vi. However, on saving and exiting /etc/group, I still could *not* access files owned by user root and available to users in group dip wh

/etc/group changes don't take effect immediately

2003-10-02 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
Hi all, In an effort to run ppp as non root, I had to include my normal user id in the group 'dip' by directly editing /etc/group using vi. However, on saving and exiting /etc/group, I still could *not* access files owned by user root and available to users in group dip whilst using my normal ui