On Thursday 12 June 2003 14:25, Keppy wrote: > Dmitry, > > Unless I missed the post, there is a command for displaying the groups a > user belongs to. Its called "groups" funnily enough. > > # groups username
Thanks, Keppy! I knew about groups command, but for some reason I missed that it can be given a username ;). > > will return the groups that user belongs to. > > Then to modify a user account - including add another group to that user > - use the "usermod" command funnily enough. > > # usermod -G newgroup,group1,group2,... username > > will add "newgroup" to the list of groups that user belongs to. Make > sure to include all the present groups though. I've done similar thing, but I used the list of groups given to me by 'id username' command. > Regarding you query about having to re-login to initiate new user and > group settings. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but won't: > > # su - username In my case, I was looking for a way to not doing 'su' to root each time I use emerge (see my prev posts in this thread for a reason why). Anyway thank you very much for your answer! Regards, Dmitry. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
