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Add a user to a group from CLI

 
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Enrico Venturi
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‎06-14-2007 09:22 PM

‎06-14-2007 09:22 PM

Add a user to a group from CLI

Hi colleagues,
which is the command to add a user to a group from the command line?

thanks
Enrico
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Wouter Jagers
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‎06-14-2007 09:39 PM

‎06-14-2007 09:39 PM

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Re: Add a user to a group from CLI

Hi,

You can edit /etc/groups or use the 'usermod' command.

The usermod command takes the options -g (for the primary group) and -G (for extra groups).

Cheers,
Wout
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Robert-Jan Goossens_1
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‎06-14-2007 09:41 PM

‎06-14-2007 09:41 PM

Re: Add a user to a group from CLI

Hi Enrico,

# usermod -G xxx username

Regards,
Robert-Jan
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Enrico Venturi
Super Advisor

‎06-14-2007 09:44 PM

‎06-14-2007 09:44 PM

Re: Add a user to a group from CLI

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