Users, groups and directory access

[A.J. Bonnema]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 06:52:39AM +0200, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
> 
>>Stil, as long as proj is not the primary group of john, he is not able 
>>to create directories or files. As soon as john makes his primary group 
>>proj, it works.
> 
> 
> 
> Sounds like John just needs to log out and back in again. There's little
> effective difference between primary and supplementary groups.
> 

It still doesn't work. However, I checked the group membership of john 
after applying "gpasswd -a john proj" and -- even after exit and 
creating a new terminal -- the command "groups" does not show proj. It 
only shows john as group, while f.i. root has a whole bunch of groups.

Is gpasswd the wrong utility here?

Guus.
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