On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 02:47 -0500, Michael Velez wrote: > > > > On 11/19/2006 8:39 PM, Michael Velez wrote: > > > > I have a file owned by apache:apache with permissions of 640. > > > > > > > > I have added myself to the apache group using usermod -G > > (and I can > > > > verify that using the groups command) but I still can't read the > > > > abovementioned file. > > > > > > > > Am I not getting something? > > > > > > Hi Michael, > > > > > > have you already tried the 'newgrp' command? > > > cu - Michael > > > > > > > When I use the newgrp command, I do change to the apache > > group and it works. > > > > Do you mean 'su - Michael'? > > > > su - michael is actually interesting. Before the su -, the > > output of the id command shows that I'm only in group > > michael. After the su -, it shows I'm in both groups michael > > and apache. > > > > Why is it that I'm in both groups after su -, and not while > > in a normal xterm logging shell. Also, I have the same > > problem of not being able to access the file through the > > gnome desktop using File Browser (even though I'm in group apache). > > > > So, at a login shell doing su - works, both other options > > (xterm login shell or desktop) do not. > > > > Michael > > Thinking through the weird behavior from my previous e-mail, I logged out > of X and when I logged back in, the id command showed the right output and I > was able to access the file. > > FYI: I tried this through vnc, as well. I needed to reboot the vnc server > to get it work. > Right ... when you make group changes you would need to log out and back in to see them. Same for vnc ... the vnc server is logged in as a user, that service would need to re-login (restarting the service vncserver should do that) to see changes added for that user. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061120/285261ae/attachment-0005.sig>