On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:56 PM, John Hupp <[email protected]> wrote: > > This opens up yet more questions. /etc/passwd only contains the original > GID's for user1 and user2. It does not reflect that both have now been also > added to the "users" group. So it seems that more than one user/group > configuration system is being supported. > > I have been reading today the manpages for adduser, addgroup, and > adduser.conf. Interestingly, it does not document where it stores the > configuration information -- perhaps because adduser and addgroup are only > front-ends for useradd and groupadd. There is no mention of /etc/passwd, > for instance. > > But apart from that, Lubuntu's GUI tool for Users and Groups is users-admin > (which I used for my customizations), and I have not yet found any handy > documentation for that. There may be something somewhere at > library.gnome.org, but I have not found it yet. But poking around a bit in > the interface, I see that it does not even show that user1 is a member of > the user1 group, and likewise with user2. So again, that indicates to me > that more than one user/group configuration system in effect.
Users can belong to many groups, one of them is the "primary group". You can change a user's primary group, from the Users and Groups program. Select the user, and go to Advanced Settings->Advanced->Main group. -- Ioannis Vranos http://cppsoftware.binhoster.com -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
