nis groups

We are running debian nfs diskless clients with nis.

Problem updating groups does not take effect until after logging out and
logging back in again.

* startup client and log in.
* on server change group that user belongs to.
* on server `cd /var/yp; make`
* on client `id; groups` does not show the updates.
* on client `id username; groups username` does show the updates.
* on client log out and log back in again and then `id; groups` show the
updates.

I need to dynamically change the groups that users belong to on the fly
while they are still logged in.




Dean Montgomery

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:31:36 GMT, Dean Montgomery
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> We are running debian nfs diskless clients with nis.
>
> Problem updating groups does not take effect until after logging out and
> logging back in again.
>
> * startup client and log in.
> * on server change group that user belongs to.
> * on server `cd /var/yp; make`
> * on client `id; groups` does not show the updates.
> * on client `id username; groups username` does show the updates.
> * on client log out and log back in again and then `id; groups` show the
> updates.
>
> I need to dynamically change the groups that users belong to on the fly
> while they are still logged in.
>
Even if you don't use nis, a user must log out and log in for changes in
group membership to take effect.

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