[rescue] Silly NetBSD question
Greg A. Woods
rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Nov 19 02:03:57 CST 2001
[ On Monday, November 19, 2001 at 01:02:51 (-0600), Dan Debertin wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Silly NetBSD question
>
> You need to logout & back in again when you change secondary groups --
> your shell only calls initgroups() during startup.
Er, 'login' only calls initgroups() before the shell starts -- and
before it calls setuid(). You have to be the superuser to call
initgroups().
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