[Xastir] Xastir and Mobilinkd Tnc 1 Bluetooth tnc

Robert Kilian robertkilian at ostechnologies.net
Fri Nov 7 14:12:24 EST 2014


You can also use "newgrp name_of_new_group" in a pinch.  This comes in
handy when you're in a graphical session with lots of things going on
and logging out would be inconvenient.

Of course, you'll have to do this for any new shell session until you've
logged out & back in.

Rob
K6RBK

On 11/07/2014 08:51 AM, Bryan Irwin wrote:
> I thought I logged out/rebooted after I ran the adduser command, I'm kinda new to Ubuntu/Linux and may have missed that piece of info in the wiki or bug report I was reading.  
> It just means I learned something. Which is a good thing.
>
>> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 10:36:17 -0600
>> From: kg4wsv at gmail.com
>> To: xastir at lists.xastir.org
>> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Mobilinkd Tnc 1 Bluetooth tnc
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Bryan Irwin <kf5tot at outlook.com> wrote:
>>> So I would say that logging out is essential after running the adduser command.
>>>
>>
>> Yes.  This is because your login process gets its identity from the
>> system config when you log in (when the process gets created).  Even
>> though you change the config file to update your identity, all running
>> processes have the identity they had when they were created.  When you
>> log out and back in, the new processes have the new identity.
>>
>> A similar situation can require a reboot.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> -Jason
>> kg4wsv
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