A.J. Bonnema said:
>> Sounds like John just needs to log out and back in again. There's
>> little effective difference between primary and supplementary groups.
>
> It still doesn't work. However, I checked the group membership of john
> after applying "gpasswd -a john proj" and -- even after exit and
> creating a new terminal -- the command "groups" does not show proj. It
> only shows john as group, while f.i. root has a whole bunch of groups.
>
> Is gpasswd the wrong utility here?
do this for me, please:
egrep 'john|proj' /etc/passwd /etc/group
and post the results to the list. let's see what we're working with, first.
-d
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