On 10/11/05, Darragh Bailey <daragh.bailey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Thanks, Craig. You saved me hours of googling I think. > > > > Must I restart something for this to take effect? I am still being > > asked for a password. Normally I would just reboot without asking such > > a redundant question, but in my experience (how little it is), this > > should not be nessacary. And to restart now would be a pain as I am in > > the middle of other things... > > > > I tried populating visudo with both methods, after creating the group > > "pals" and making both dotancohen and work members, but no go. > > > > Dotan > > > > You need to log out and log in again, or start another session as the user > dotancohen. In the new session the user will receive the updated groups > information. > > If anyone has come across how to update any existing sessions with new > group information it would be handy. > > If you open an xterm from your current session, and type "groups" you > should still find that you do not appear to be in the group pals. > Well, I restarted the machine and no luck- I still get prompted for a password when I am dotancohen trying to open a program as work. What could I check to see where the problem is, assuming that I made the correct changes to visudo and added dotancohen and work to the group pals correctly? Dotan http://IE-only.com
