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mezoko

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Registered: 2005-03-26

Posts: 310

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Add user to group trouble

**I may not post a lot but I'm in the irc channel for arch**

Ok here my issue
I've add users to groups before, etc...
So I want to add my self to the optical group and su in a term and edit /etc/group

add mine looks like

[matthew@linux ~]$ cat /etc/group
root::0:root
bin::1:root,bin,daemon
daemon::2:root,bin,daemon
sys::3:root,bin
adm::4:root,daemon
tty::5:
disk::6:root
lp::7:daemon
mem::8:
kmem::9:
wheel::10:root,matthew
ftp::11:
mail::12:
smmsp::25:
audio::92:root,matthew
optical::93:root,matthew
nobody::99:
users::100:
slocate:x:21:
video:x:91:matthew,root
floppy:x:94:
storage:x:95:
scanner:x:96:
media:x:102:matthew,root
special:x:103:matthew,root
httpd:x:104:matthew,root
samba:x:106:root,matthew,samba

I logout and login
and I'm still not added I check my the command 'id' and 'groups'

[matthew@linux ~]$ id
uid=1000(matthew) gid=100(users) groups=10(wheel),91(video),92(audio),100(users),102(media),103(special),104(httpd),106(samba)

[matthew@linux ~]$ groups
wheel video audio users media special httpd samba

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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Add user to group trouble

Instead of editing /etc/group, try:
gpasswd -a matthew optical

phrakture

Arch Overlord

From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: Add user to group trouble

yeah, don't edit the file - it's shadowed, so you can't really edit it to get the same effect...

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mezoko

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Registered: 2005-03-26

Posts: 310

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Re: Add user to group trouble

Instead of editing /etc/group, try:
gpasswd -a matthew optical

thanks for the tip
it ended up I had to logout of vc/1 (term) and back in cause I didn't use gdm I feel so stupid

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