Most Unix users believe it’s impossible to add a group that was recently added to your user account without logging in and logging out. If you’re running X and need to give your gui new permissions (like dolphin/konqueoror) this may be true, for the most part. I don’t know how to change it for those processes. However, if you need to change it for a shell prompt it’s easy. You merely execute the command newgrp <newgroupname> in an open shell prompt and that prompt will now be loaded with the new group. I believe it also changes the default group that shell is running as. So if you run newgrp http; touch test.txt your file will be created with the group http instead of whatever your default is. You can change your group back to the default by using the sg command.