[K12OSN] nautilus smbldap - user access in commandline but not nautilus

Toshio Kuratomi toshio at tiki-lounge.com
Thu Mar 30 00:29:28 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:41 +1200, Krsnendu Dasa wrote:
> I created a user initially with primary group of staff.
> Then I changed it to admin.
> The user was able to access files with permission for the admin group 
> only on the command line.
> In nautilus the the user was denied access.
> After a while I tried running konqueror from the command line. I got access.
> I tried running nautilus from the command line. I got access.
> I tried running nautilus from the desktop again. This time it worked.
> 
> Any idea why it took time for the desktop to catchup with the change of 
> ownership of the user?
> nscd was off all the time.

I think groups are assigned at the start of a login session.  So, for
instance, if you open up a command line as a user and change the user's
group to the new group, that command line instance will also fail to
belong to the new group.

-Toshio
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