admin/sudo confusion

Sarunas Burdulis sarunas at math.dartmouth.edu
Mon May 13 12:24:08 UTC 2013


On 05/13/2013 01:56 AM, rikona wrote:
> Hello Sarunas,
> 
> ... 
>> Of course, after group membership has been changed, the user has to log
>> out and login again, for the change to take effect.
> 
> Aha! That is what was missing. I was so busy moving, setting and
> tweaking things that I didn't log out - just switched between users,
> which doesn't seem to do the same thing. An actual logout was done
> after a small hardware change [no power] and then the settings 'took'
> and worked. Sometimes it's the little things that cause problems. :-))

Yes, "switching" users merely puts the previous user's session on hold,
without logging off.

> Thanks much for the help!

You're welcome. Glad it worked out.

Sarunas Burdulis
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas




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