On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:07:13AM +0930, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 17 July 2013, Matthew Miller sent: > > Type "groups" without your username to show your _current_ groups -- > > remember that adding yourself to a group doesn't take effect until you > > start a new session. (E.g. by logging out and in again.) > Or opening a new terminal? If the terminal starts a new login session, yes. They usually default to _not_. You can type 'exec su $USER' and then your password at the prompt... (I don't think bash -l will work.) > Darned if I can see an easy way to add groups to a user, now. The users > control GUI doesn't have any options regarding groups. Damn this > dumbing down of Gnome. system-config-users seems to be still available. It's moderately user-friendly. From the command line, I think 'gpasswd groupname -a username' is the easiest. (You can use groupmod, but it's got some gotchas with behavior where gpasswd is straightforward despite the irrelevant-sounding name.) -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
