solarflow99 wrote:

is this actually a requirement, or does adding their groups from the

console

give them the extra GID access?

If your question is, "is newgrp on Linux required to use the permissions of the added group?"

The answer depends on your O/S and your file system and mount point ACL settings, but on my Red Hat E4 system with ext3, I don't need to newgrp.

Ken Marsh

ANS System Administration Lead

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