[gentoo-user] How do I add a user to a group without delet..

Walter Dnes wrote:

> usermod is painfully lacking. You can't really add a user to a
>supplemental group. You effectively wipe out all supplemental group
>memberships, and submit a new list. Given all the groups in Gentoo,
>this is painfull. Is there a utility somewhere? Nothing mentioned in
>"see also" in the usermod man page.
>
>

I usually just su to root and edit /etc/group manually. Not sure if
that's a good idea or not, but hey, I haven't had any problems yet

James

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On Friday 03 December 2004 10:58 pm, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes.RemoveThis@waltdnes.org>
wrote:
> usermod is painfully lacking. You can't really add a user to a
> supplemental group. You effectively wipe out all supplemental group
> memberships, and submit a new list. Given all the groups in Gentoo,
> this is painfull. Is there a utility somewhere? Nothing mentioned in
> "see also" in the usermod man page.

Try kuser in kde-base/kdeadmin.

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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

>On Friday 03 December 2004 10:58 pm, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes.TakeThisOut@waltdnes.org>
>wrote:
>
>
>> usermod is painfully lacking. You can't really add a user to a
>>supplemental group. You effectively wipe out all supplemental group
>>memberships, and submit a new list. Given all the groups in Gentoo,
>>this is painfull. Is there a utility somewhere? Nothing mentioned in
>>"see also" in the usermod man page.
>>
>>
>
>Try kuser in kde-base/kdeadmin.
>
>
>

Or webmin

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On Saturday 04 December 2004 06:56 am, Thomas Kirchner <lists.TakeThisOut@halffull.org>
wrote:
> On Dec 3 23:07, James Colannino wrote:
> > I usually just su to root and edit /etc/group manually. Not sure if
> > that's a good idea or not, but hey, I haven't had any problems yet
>
> It's not the worst thing in the world, I've done it plenty of times.
> The better way is to use vigr (and vipw for /etc/passwd) to edit
> group/shadow files. It makes sure that the file doesn't get corrupted
> in the process of editing.

What package are those from? (qpkg -I -f `which vigr` ; qpkg -I -f `which
vipw) I don't seem to have them on my system.

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On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 08:22 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Saturday 04 December 2004 06:56 am, Thomas Kirchner <lists.DeleteThis@halffull.org>
> wrote:
> > On Dec 3 23:07, James Colannino wrote:
> > > I usually just su to root and edit /etc/group manually. Not sure if
> > > that's a good idea or not, but hey, I haven't had any problems yet
> >
> > It's not the worst thing in the world, I've done it plenty of times.
> > The better way is to use vigr (and vipw for /etc/passwd) to edit
> > group/shadow files. It makes sure that the file doesn't get corrupted
> > in the process of editing.
>
> What package are those from? (qpkg -I -f `which vigr` ; qpkg -I -f `which
> vipw) I don't seem to have them on my system.

as vigr and vipw are in /usr/sbin, its likely that which vigr is failing
if you are joe user, as they will not be in your path.

as root:
sf linux # qpkg -f `which vigr`
sys-apps/shadow *

as nick:
nick@sf nick $ qpkg -f `which vigr`
which: no vigr in
(/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3:/opt/Acrobat5:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/jre/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.3/bin:/usr/games/bin:/opt/vmware/bin)



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On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 06:14:50PM +1300, Glenn McCarthy wrote
> On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 5:58 pm, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > usermod is painfully lacking. You can't really add a user to a
> > supplemental group. You effectively wipe out all supplemental group
> > memberships, and submit a new list. Given all the groups in Gentoo,
> > this is painfull. Is there a utility somewhere? Nothing mentioned in
> > "see also" in the usermod man page.
>
> gpasswd -a user group

Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for.

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