Avoiding log outs

ForYouAndI.com · 05-27-2007, 05:33 PM

I use Suse 10.2. When I make a change in YaST to a user, such as their file permission access I always have to log them out for them to get their new permissions.

Can I avoid this?

What other things can I avoid?

Tinkster · 05-27-2007, 08:44 PM

What do you mean, you have to log them out to get new permissions?

Permissions kick in on the fly; ownerships don't. If you add them
to a new group, all they have to do is a newgrp <groupname> (which,
of course, only works for that one session).

Cheers,
Tink

ForYouAndI.com · 05-27-2007, 08:54 PM

I'm talking about things such as adding or removing a user in a group using YaST. When I add a user to a group they cannot use the new privileges until logout. How do I avoid this?

Tinkster · 05-27-2007, 08:57 PM

You can't. But I answered that in the previous post. They need
to either log out (to pick that up for ALL their processes) or to
run newgrp <groupname> to get it for the *current* process.

Cheers,
Tink