rado wrote: > kk, I am guilty of easily just booting up in Kde's gui, start/system > settings/users and groups but then also I'd rather do it from the bash > console. > > after googling around a good bit I am still not exactly sure of the > proper way to do this. > > I want to add a user to another group w/out removing the groups the user > already belongs to. > > in man usermod: > -G group,[...] > A list of supplementary groups which the user is also > a member of. Each group is separated from the next by a comma, with no > intervening whitespace. The groups are subject to the > same restrictions as the group given with the -g option. If the > user is currently a member of a group which is not > listed, the user will be removed from the group. This behaviour can > be changed via -a option, which appends user to the current > supplementary group list. > > ok...I kinda get this but unclear of the exact format and I am super > fearful of ripping up my userbase. > > Here is what I think it should be: > > # usermod <user> -a -G <group> > > where the user's name is say..."pete" and I want him to be added to the > group "tech": > > # usermod pete -a -G tech > > Say pete is already in groups ummm, sales,admin, and help. After > administering the above command, would pete still be in sales, > admin,help, and now tech? I am interested in the simplest, correct way > to do this. > > thx, > > John Rose > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > The command should be # usermod -G <group1,group2...> <username> When doing it this way you need to specify ALL the groups the user belongs to as this does not append to the current list. So to get a list of groups a user may be associated with type # groups <username> Then take the output to be used with usermod command. Or you can just edit the /etc/groups file by hand Zeb