On 8/7/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 22:46 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I added my user to a new group from a gnome-terminal. But the groups > > command didn't show me in the new group. However, after Ctrl-Alt-F2, > > in pure console mode, groups shows me in the proper group. The "users > > and groups" applications from Gnome updates the groups information > > properly. > > > > Why this behaviour? Is this normal? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > PS: Closing the gnome-terminal and starting it again didn't work. > > The user has to be logged out and logged back in. The group file is > only consulted during the login process. Any changes you make to it > regarding an already-logged-in user will be ignored until that user logs > in again. > > Closing and opening a gnome-terminal does not log the user in...the > terminal is part of the user's existing session. But the gnome application to manage users and groups do it well... no login is required for it. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - > - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - > - - > - BASIC is the Computer Science version of `Scientific Creationism' - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
