[Fedora-directory-users] adding a user to multiple groups

[Susan]

--- "Sharpe, Sam J" <sam.sharpe at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> >> [root at acmegrid1 ~]# /etc/init.d/nscd stop
> >> Stopping nscd:                                             [  OK  ]
> >> [root at acmegrid1 ~]# id -G test
> >> 1234
> 
> > If you are running nscd you need to try
> > as root service nscd reload
> 
> What Sarah did is stop nscd, then did an id lookup while nscd is  
> stopped. It is certainly a valid test.
> 
> The problem is that a stop/start does not invalidate the nscd cache -  
> a simple "nscd -i passwd ; nscd -i group" will do that without a  
> service reload.
> 

Ah -- didn't know this one!  Thank you, Sam..


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