On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:36:19AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote
Debian seems to require a lot of this, i.e. making user a member of cdrom, floppy, and audio (what else?). This raises a question for me, namely is there a group-management tool somewhere. I've read the
Exactly my question too! But I was looking for a GUI tool, in which I could just check the groups I want a user to be a member of instead of using the "adduser" command repeatedly. Couldn't find one, so I just did everything on the command prompt.
usermod manpage, but all it has is the ability to make the listed user a member only of the listed groups. There doesn't seem to be a switch for adding the user to a group without dropping any unmentioned groups. What I'd like would be a couple of commands to... a) list the groups a userID is currently a member of
I may have got you wrong, but are you looking for: $> groups <userID>
b) add the userID to one group, but not drop him from all other groups, without having to type in all the current groups he belongs to
$> adduser <username> <groupname>
If you already know these, apologies. regards, ->HS
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