Comment 36 for bug 212098

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 212098] Re: "easy" file sharing not notifying about logout/login

Chris Coulson wrote:
> The maintainer scripts for Samba automatically add all users who are
> members of group 'admin' to group 'sambashare' when Samba is installed.
> However, the user won't belong to this group until they log out and back
> in again (and I don't think that there is any way around that).
>
Is it possible to query the group database directly, so the feature is
activated as soon as the user is added?

Mark