F16: user's secondary groups ignored

Masood masood at dentcat.com
Fri Oct 14 09:04:10 UTC 2011


Thanks Adam. Downgrade to glibc -10 fixes the permissions issue but it
somehow breaks gnome-session (gnome-session dies when I log out). Since I
didn't have that problem with glibc -11, I guess next update fixes both
issues.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 17:19 +1100, Masood wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >
> > On a fresh install of F16, I have added "wheel" as a secondary group
> > for a user using "# usermod -a -G wheel masood".
> >
> >
> > I have verified that "/etc/group" has the correct entry and
> > "system-config-users" shows that user "masood" belongs to "wheel"
> > group. However, "$ groups" only lists user's primary group and the
> > user is unable to run any command as "wheel".
> >
> >
> > Is there a different way to do this in F16 or something is broken on
> > my installation?
>
> Just Glibc Update Comedy Hour again.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745675
>
> downgrade to glibc -10 fixes it.
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