As far as I know, if you add a user to /etc/group, all you need to do is have the user log out, and back in in order for groups to reflect the changes. Greg On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 01:32:49AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > Quick security question: I added a user to the adm group in my > /etc/group file today but couldn't get the contents to be reflected > until I rebooted the system. Is there a way to "reload" the contents > of /etc/group without a reboot? > > I'm running Slackwarre 8.1 with a 2.4.19 kernel. I didn't see > anything obvious in the man page for group. > -- > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
