usermod help

[Veroland]

Hi

I have a weird thing here (or it's just me)

I run usermod as root to add a user to groups: #usermod -A uucp,dialout username

Everything is fine even after I close the root session but as soon as my user logs out and in again the group memberships is gone.

Am I misunderstanding usermod?

Thanks

 

[concentricpuddle]

You need use the -G (note that -G is case sensitive. -g means something else) option. It'll be something like:

usermod -a -G uucp,dialout username

Group information is strored in /etc/group. So you can just add your user to the last column in the group if you're having problems with usermod.

 

[Veroland]

You need use the -G (note that -G is case sensitive. -g means something else) option. It'll be something like:


Group information is strored in /etc/group. So you can just add your user to the last column in the group if you're having problems with usermod.

cool, thanks a lot