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When adding a user to a new group when does the user group permissions become active when its a /nologin user?
I have a service level account to run my webserver, and this user is setup with /sbin/nologin.
Normally when you add a user to a group you must logout and login to use the new group permissions.
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Incompatible group permissions in Linux - Is it a bug? [duplicate]
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How to apply changes of newly added user groups without needing to reboot?
I am on Ubuntu 11.04. I am creating another user and placing an existing user in the group of ...
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What are the allowed group names for groupadd?
I followed these instructions to build Shadow, which provides the groupadd command. I am now getting an error when trying this:
$ groupadd automake1.10
groupadd: 'automake1.10' is not a valid group ...
