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Hello,

I don't know if it's the right place for the following problem as it's not about building up a script.

PROBLEM : adding a user to a secondary group is not reflected system wide immediately.
It is only taken into account after rebooting the machine. (working in runlevel 5).

user1 has primary group user1, home dir /home/user1 with permissions 0770.
user2 has primary group user2, home dir /home/user2 with permissions 0700.

Add user2 to group user1 :


user2 shell:
: fails
: fails.

Both these commands are OK after a full reboot.

How can we apply the group membership changes system-wide without rebooting ?

Thank you.

What distro are you running?

Based on your example, it looks like user2 is not logged in during the execution of usermod. Is this correct? If user2 is logged in, usermod may fail silently!

- thobbs

Actually, the solution is for user2 to logout and login again. Then it works as expected. usermod does not fail i user2 is logged, but the changes are not propagated to user2's session. It was suggested on another discussion forum.

Thank you.