Package: adduser Version: 3.134 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello dear adduser maintainer(s),
I swear, *every* time I do `adduser user group` I have to look up on the internet how to make that group available to that user in a running shell session... The attached patch adds two phrases to the "Add an existing user to an existing group" paragraph that tells the reader to use `newgrp` to achieve that and mentions `newgrp` in the "SEE ALSO" section. I'd be glad if you could include this in the man page so I (and probably others) can stop looking it up on the internet each time... Best greetings and thank you for your work on `adduser`. *t -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.10 APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-32-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_CH:de Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages adduser depends on: ii passwd 1:4.13+dfsg1-1+b1 adduser recommends no packages. Versions of packages adduser suggests: ii cron 3.0pl1-162 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-5 ii perl 5.36.0-7+deb12u2 pn quota <none> -- debconf information excluded
--- adduser-3.150/doc/adduser.8 2025-03-28 14:21:07.000000000 +0100 +++ adduser-3.150-new/doc/adduser.8 2025-04-21 14:32:25.573790916 +0200 @@ -293,6 +293,11 @@ If called with two non-option arguments, \fBadduser\fP will add an existing user to an existing group. +The group will only be available to a user in a new shell +session. If you need the group to be immediately available +to a user in a shell session, then execute \fBnewgrp group\fP +or \fBnewgrp -\fP in that user's shell session. + .SH OPTIONS Different modes of \fBadduser\fP allow different options. If no valid modes are listed for a option, @@ -781,6 +786,7 @@ .BR adduser.conf (5), .BR deluser (8), .BR groupadd (8), +.BR newgrp (1), .BR useradd (8), .BR usermod (8), .BR /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.html
