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M4A1Carbine
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 Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 6:50 pm Post subject: How to edit user groups? |
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| I want to add my main user to the group of 'games' so that I can play games, how does one do that? (I have root access) |
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Aynjell
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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I only know how one would do that in kde. You would open a program in the system folder, Kuser. In that program is an easy wysiwyg way of changing your permissions. Of course this does require root access.
Anyway I will figure out how to alter permissions via 'le olde commande line' seeing as how it is more universal.
But if you are using Kde, Kuser is the way to go.
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nahpets
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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$ man chgrp
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oops  my bad! I meant to say "usermod", but that got changed to "chgrp" somewhere in the brain-keyboard interface. Sorry...
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M4A1Carbine
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Aynjell wrote: | I only know how one would do that in kde. You would open a program in the system folder, Kuser. In that program is an easy wysiwyg way of changing your permissions. Of course this does require root access.
Anyway I will figure out how to alter permissions via 'le olde commande line' seeing as how it is more universal.
But if you are using Kde, Kuser is the way to go. |
I am using KDE but I don't have a Kuser program anywhere. |
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papal_authority
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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vi /etc/group
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M4A1Carbine
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| papal_authority wrote: | | vi /etc/group |
That's nice, could you tell me how to edit it without screwing anything up?
I figured it out, thanks! |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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usermod -G games username
That should do the trick
Use a lower case g to make it the primary group. |
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nahpets
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| msalerno wrote: | usermod -G games username
That should do the trick
Use a lower case g to make it the primary group. |
I think you have to list ALL groups again. In your example, "username" will now be part of the "games" group and will be removed from all others.
from "man usermod":
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If the user is currently a member of a group which is not listed, the user will be removed from the group.
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M4A1Carbine
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| nahpets wrote: | | msalerno wrote: | usermod -G games username
That should do the trick
Use a lower case g to make it the primary group. |
I think you have to list ALL groups again. In your example, "username" will now be part of the "games" group and will be removed from all others.
from "man usermod":
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If the user is currently a member of a group which is not listed, the user will be removed from the group.
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Yeah..that's what it does, so now I have to go back in and add them all over again. (Not hard, just kind of a pain) |
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nahpets
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| M4A1Carbine wrote: | | nahpets wrote: | | msalerno wrote: | usermod -G games username
That should do the trick
Use a lower case g to make it the primary group. |
I think you have to list ALL groups again. In your example, "username" will now be part of the "games" group and will be removed from all others.
from "man usermod":
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If the user is currently a member of a group which is not listed, the user will be removed from the group.
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Yeah..that's what it does, so now I have to go back in and add them all over again. (Not hard, just kind of a pain) |
That's why I usually use "Kuser", it takes care of all that for you... |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 11:18 am Post subject: |
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Yeah usermod or vim /etc/group usually works for me.
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neysx
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# vigr | man vigr wrote: | DESCRIPTION
vipw and vigr will edit the files /etc/passwd and /etc/group, respectively. With the -s flag, they will
edit the shadow versions of those files, fI/etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow, respectively. The programs will
set the appropriate locks to prevent file corruption. When looking for an editor, the programs will first
try the environment variable VISUAL, then the environment variable EDITOR, and finally the default edi-
tor, vi.
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jounihat
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:45 am Post subject: |
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emerge kdeadmin
Then you'll have KUser.
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