On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 21:19:18 +0000, Joe wrote: > For a simple DE, just cat /etc/group will check that a group add > command worked. The next login will make use of the group membership.
That's correct, and also: * "id USERNAME" (passing an argument) will tell you what that user's group memberships will be when they login. * "id" (no argument) tells you what your group memberships are *now* in your current shell. This may be easier than scanning the entire output of cat /etc/group, or typing out a grep command. It becomes even more useful if your system is using something other than /etc/group to define group memberships (NIS, NIS+, LDAP, etc.).
