On 29/09/20 12:40 am, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, September 28, 2020 01:28:01 AM Richard Hector wrote: >> On 26/09/20 2:47 pm, David Wright wrote: >> > If you make yourself a member of the adm group, you can read your logs >> > as a normal user. You'd need to type into any terminal >> > >> > $ sudo addgroup myloginname adm >> > >> > replacing myloginname as appropriate, but you will need to login again >> > before the addgroup command will have any effect. >> >> I think you mean adduser rather than addgroup there: >> >> $ sudo adduser myloginname adm >> >> You're adding the user to the group, rather than the group to the user :-) > > I think either will work: > > from man adduser <one of five ways to invoke adduser>: > > Add an existing user to an existing group > If called with two non-option arguments, adduser will add an > existing user to an existing group. > > > from man addgroup <one of five ways to invoke addgroup>: > > Add an existing user to an existing group > If called with two non-option arguments, adduser will add an > existing user to an existing group.
Those are both the same manpage (adduser(8)), which describes both commands. Both instances of that quote refer to adduser :-) addgroup is just a symlink to adduser, but behaves differently when called with that name. Richard
