Strange problem with usermod

fluke · 2005-10-02 13:52:28

I logged as root, and moded a user:

usermod -G audio,users,webadmin

Then I used groups to see if the operation was successful.

groups fluke

It showed:
audio users webadmin

But when I logged as fluke,

groups

I showed audio users, which was the same as that operation.

Why?

Centare · 2005-10-03 02:30:44

If you were already logged in as fluke when you ran usermod, did you log out and back in before running groups as fluke?

fluke · 2005-10-03 09:14:33

I ran usermod as root
and then ran aroups fluke (still as root), showed correct qroups of fluke

Then, I logged as fluke, ran groups, I cant see any change, groups still the same as before

Snowman · 2005-10-03 17:44:28

try:
gpasswd -a fluke audio
to add a user to a group.
And does the webadmin group exist (in /etc/group) ? If not, create one with groupadd.

fluke · 2005-10-07 13:43:17

Yes, gpasswd works for me. Thanks.

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