| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:30:20 +0100 |
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:32:29PM -0500, Keith Bentrup wrote: > As myusername, I type > > groups > > and get only myusername. This is in a shell that existed previous to the edit of /etc/groups, is it not? > Why does it do this? How is sudo -u different from being myself? It starts a new process. Shells only read /etc/group at startup. Some *may* grab that information if you tell them to rehash, but usually that only updates (some) environment information. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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