Goal: add gottlieb to group scanner.
It seems that -aG works but --append --groups doesn't
I will file a bug in b.g.o. unless I did something wrong.
thanks in advance
allan
ajglap portage # usermod --groups scanner --append gottlieb
Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN
Options:
-a, --append append the user to the supplemental GROUPS
(use only with -G)
-c, --comment COMMENT new value of the GECOS field
-d, --home HOME_DIR new home directory for the user account
-e, --expiredate EXPIRE_DATE set account expiration date to EXPIRE_DATE
-f, --inactive INACTIVE set password inactive after expiration
to INACTIVE
-g, --gid GROUP force use GROUP as new primary group
-G, --groups GROUPS new list of supplementary GROUPS
-h, --help display this help message and exit
-l, --login NEW_LOGIN new value of the login name
-L, --lock lock the user account
-m, --move-home move contents of the home directory to the new
location (use only with -d)
-o, --non-unique allow using duplicate (non-unique) UID
-p, --password PASSWORD use encrypted password for the new password
-s, --shell SHELL new login shell for the user account
-u, --uid UID new UID for the user account
-U, --unlock unlock the user account
ajglap portage # usermod -aG scanner gottlieb
ajglap portage # grep gottlieb /etc/group
wheel:x:10:root,gottlieb
cron:x:16:cron,gottlieb
audio:x:18:gottlieb
cdrom:x:19:haldaemon,gottlieb
video:x:27:root,gottlieb
games:x:35:gottlieb
cdrw:x:80:gottlieb,haldaemon
portage:x:250:portage,gottlieb
gottlieb:x:1502:
scanner:x:1504:gottlieb
plugdev:x:1507:gottlieb,haldaemon
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