[rescue] Silly NetBSD question

Dan Debertin rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Nov 19 01:02:51 CST 2001


Joshua D Boyd writes:
 > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:41:17AM -0500, Rebecca Ore wrote:
 > 
 > > Edit /etc/group and add yourself to wheel.
 > 
 > OK.  So I have:
 > wheel:*:0:root, joshua
 > 
 > Still no go.
 > So, I tried:
 > wheel:*:0:root;joshua
 > and again no go.  

You need to logout & back in again when you change secondary groups --
your shell only calls initgroups() during startup.

And you want commas, not semicolons.

Dan
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