Mageia3 doesn't like my Palm Zire 72

[shimi]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>wrote:

> strange - I get conflicting results.
>
> [solomon at shlomo1 ~]$ id
> uid=500(solomon) gid=500(solomon) groups=500(solomon),418(vboxusers)
>
> [solomon at shlomo1 ~]$ groups
> solomon vboxusers
>
> [solomon at shlomo1 ~]$ cat /etc/group |grep solomon
> dialout:x:83:solomon
> solomon:x:500:
> vboxusers:x:418:solomon
>
> On the other hand, you're right - this is a permissions problem. I
> tried the same command as root and it worked.
>

I take it you added yourself to the 'dialout' command only after my e-mail?

If so, you need to re-login (or 're-pass' through root) in order to
'obtain' your group memberships to the active process tree. You could su to
root and then su to solomon from there, for example.

Both your 'group' and 'cat' commands read configuration files, while 'id'
actually uses system calls to read information on the currently running
process to print out whatever they print.

-- Shimi
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