On Monday, September 28, 2020 08:42:03 AM Richard Hector wrote: > 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.
Ahh, yes, you are right, and David (Wright) was right, also. (I didn't read carefully enough :-(
