Hi,
Or for those that are "command line challlenged" ... ;-) just go to your
"Red Hat icon" .. or HDE icon , select "System Settings" then "users
and Groups' then find your user profile & edit the groups you want
to belong to. Just that simple. :-)
As far as the "registry" isn't that something where soon to be hitched
couples are listed for the wedding gifts ?
:-D
norbert
microman cmosnetworks com wrote:
Shawn
Powers wrote:
Arg...
Ok, in my previous Debian life (I've adopted Redhat, all due to you
folks...) it was very simple to add a user to a group.
adduser spowers audio
for example would add me to the audio group, so I could listen music
whilst I typed away during the day. It is different in Redhat, and
while I see *sorta* how I can do it -- there are a few caveats.
usermod spowers -G audio
Will do it, but I believe that gets rid of ALL my other secondary
groups, and then I only belong to the "spowers" group, and the "audio"
group.
How do I just ADD myself to a group, without snarfing up previous group
membership?
BTW, the audio example isn't really the reason I'm asking -- it goes
along with my other password generating question. I need to restrict
the students in usermin so they can't change passwords, and the easiest
way is to disable a group from using that feature, so I need to add
them all to a common group.
Thanks AGAIN for any help,
-Shawn
Here's how.
microman multimedia01:~$ su root
Password:
root multimedia01:/home/microman# vi /etc/group
Note that you can use any editor of your choice for this (kedit, gedit,
even OpenOffice.org if you remember to save in text format :-) ). Once
inside, find your group name and have at it, like so:
root::0:root
bin::1:root,bin,daemon
mygroup::200:microman,macrogirl,gandalf,mrspock,MyNewUser
You see that I've added MyNewUser to mygroup, above, and that the
userIDs are separated by commas. Save, and presto, you're done. Yep,
it really is that easy, and it works on all GNU/Linux distributions, be
they Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, SuSE, whatever. Works on Solaris,
HP-UX, and the BSDs, too! You might need to log out and log back in
for it to take full effect.
Beats the heck out of a registry, don't it? :-)
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