groups

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "B0Ti" == B0Ti  <9915104t@example.com> writes:

    B0Ti> I'm still having a little problem with autologin. It works
    B0Ti> almost perfectly under woody & Xfree4 except that the users
    B0Ti> groups are not set.

AFAIK, that's as it should be.  A process (including your shell) only
has 4 ids (plus some stuff that isn't supposed to leak to where you
can get it): {real,effective} X {user, group} id.  I'm not sure what's
going on with your problems, but again AFAIK the only way to find out
what groups a user is a member of is to query /etc/group.  I assume
that's what id(1) does, because it works fine for other users -- it
can't depend on anything in my login environment.

What real problems are you having?  If it's that your non-root user
can't access devices, that's presumably because the magic that changes
device ownership to whoever last logged in on the console isn't
working.  (I don't do this, so I don't know any more about it.)


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