User group assignment - how to make it effective

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Hello

I have a problem with group assignment (openSUSE 11). After I add a new group and a user to that group in Yast, I have to restart to make the assignment effective (as confirmed by executing “groups” command in shell). Is there any way to make it effective without rebooting?

What I have done:

  • Inside KDE4, run Yast > Security And Users > User and Group management
  • I add new local group and my current user ID to that group
  • Open a new Konsole and type “groups”, the new group was not shown there
  • Log out of KDE, then log in again. Open a new Konsole and type “groups”, the new group still not shown

Thanks for any advice/pointer

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Hmm… I just did it again just to make sure (add new group and assign user), but now it became effective after I log-out and log-in to KDE again…

Don’t know what’s wrong with my previous attempt. Anyway, close this issue.

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You only need to logout and login again, not reboot, as you have discovered. The reason is that the group list is read in once by the login session shell.