How can a user refresh his/her current shell environment after, for
example, sysadmin adds him/her to another group ?

EXAMPLE:
groups command gives for the user joe this
548 palace:~ > groups
power lp neptune saruman

sysadmin adds joe to the group proj

If joe types groups on one of existing terminals the result is the same
as from above. He is not a member of group proj

Of course, if the user telnets to itself, he/she will see proj as a
part of his group

549 palace:~ > telnet palace
Trying 10.188.27.17...
Connected to palace.
Escape character is '^]'.
Red Hat Desktop release 3 (Taroon)
Kernel 2.4.21-20.EL on an i686
login: joe
Password:
Last login: Thu Jul 21 14:55:29 from palace.XXX.XXX
501 palace:~ > groups
power lp neptune saruman proj

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So, I am repeating the question:
How can a user refresh his/her current shell environment after, for
example, sysadmin adds him/her to another group (without log out and
log in sequence)?

Sincerely

Igor

P.S: sourcing .login does not help
sourcing .cshrc does not help

of course, rsh to palace works too ... but this is just a workaround (
like telnet )

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<igor.furlan@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> So, I am repeating the question:
> How can a user refresh his/her current shell environment after, for
> example, sysadmin adds him/her to another group (without log out and
> log in sequence)?

The refresh a user's current shell  and to re-run the user's  .bash_profile
settings use the command
. .bash_profile
( note the 2 dots )



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<igor.furlan@gmail.com> wrote
> How can a user refresh his/her current shell environment after, for
> example, sysadmin adds him/her to another group (without log out and
> log in sequence)?
How about     exec    bash  -l     {that's lowercase L, not one, after 
the dash}

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In article <1122004713.777776.146240@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
igor.furlan@gmail.com <igor.furlan@gmail.com> wrote:
:How can a user refresh his/her current shell environment after, for
:example, sysadmin adds him/her to another group (without log out and
:log in sequence)?

Short answer: you can't.  The list of supplementary group IDs is set by
the login program.  The only way a process can change that list is via
the setgroups(2) system call, which requires root privileges.

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exec su -l $USER      did the trick

I've found the solution here
[url]http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=1791154#post1791154[
/url]

Thanks to ALL

Igor

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