On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 10:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2020-07-07 12:25, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 7:38 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> One thing to remember is that if you change the group or passwd >>> file, you need to start a new session to pick up the changes. As >>> root, if I change the group file, "id user" will immediately show >>> the changes. But any existing sessions for that user will still >>> have the old settings and running "id" as the user there will show >>> that. You need to do "su - user" to start a new session with the >>> new group settings. >> >> ACK. Thanks. >> >> In my case, I'd halted the VM so the output above reflects >> accurately the state of affairs. > > Did it work? Of course not. If libvirt or polkit can understand nested groups in "/etc/group", within a fourth or fifth column, it's its own, unique, freaky feature. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
