[rescue] Silly NetBSD question

Joshua D Boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Nov 19 09:38:26 CST 2001


On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:02:51AM -0600, Dan Debertin wrote:
> 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.

As I just learned, just wanting commas doesn't do it.  I also needed to get
rid of the space.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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