Refreshing the groups of a running process

Posted Oct 13, 2011 10:47 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: Refreshing the groups of a running process by DaD
Parent article: A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

At least groups are no longer necessary for most things on the desktop; udev/policykit take care of adding/removing ACLs on device nodes as users log in/log out/active/deactive their terminals.

Being able to revoke access to a file after the user has opened it, however, would still be useful...