SORRY :) On 4/4/19, Cindy Sue Causey <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/4/19, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> (On Wheezy) I've been trying to add myself to the sudo group with the >> usermod >> command. >> >> As root, I've tried most of the permutations of this: >> >> usermod -a -G sudo <username> >> >> None of them have worked -- any suggestions? >> >> (I have checked using groups (as username), and even have opened fresh >> terminals. Hmm, maybe I have to reboot? I hope not, I don't want to do >> that >> in the near future.) > > > Hi.. It took about 5 times of reading what you wrote before I > remembered that I don't have to "reboot", but I do have to *logout* > for changes like that to take hold. The DIFFERENCE is that I use > "adduser" to make those kinds of changes: > > And, yes, I know... logging out might as well be rebooting depending > on what kind of work we have opened across our desktops. :) > > K/t having learned of adduser while debootstrap'ing, I use: > > adduser <username> sudo > > If you go looking for adduser and don't find it for Wheezy, see if > useradd is there for you. Possibly maybe even installed already? > > *My understanding* is that adduser and useradd do similar things. > Chatter on the Net over time *seems* to be saying that adduser maybe > [embellishes] a little... > > Or something like that. > > PS I'm not finding either usermod OR useradd via a quick "apt-cache > search" of Debian _Buster_ "main" repository. Seems like I remember > seeing chatter about that, too, along the way.
*NEVER MIND* As soon as I hit send, I thought to double-tab on "user" while in "su -". Useradd's there. Userdel... Usermod............ Just not having the best of cognitive days today... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
