[Gllug] User Permissions

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Fri Jan 4 22:16:37 UTC 2002


On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:57:24PM +0000, harry wrote:
> HI all
> 
> How do I prevent the root password prompt whenever I want to use kppp. I 
> thought it was a matter of adding the user to the group but it does not seem 
> to work like that. Do I need to do the following,

Have you logged out and in again since?  New group memberships (on the
local machine) don't affect existing logins, only new ones.


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Bruce

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