I'm just setting up a debian system for the first time in a long while.
(I'm typing this on my new debian system.)
The initial user that I created is automatically in many important groups:
cdrom
floppy
sudo
audio
dip
video
plugdev
netdev
bluetooth
lpadmin
scanner
silly <== the user gets its own group
When I do an adduser for "hugh", I get only two groups:
users
hugh
Why was "silly" not put into group "users"?
Why was "hugh" not put into all these empowering groups?
Is there a magic shortcut to getting hugh added to all these groups?
It seems that console users would want most or all of these groups.
Is there a nice guide to which groups allow what actions?
What's the normal way of adding users? I read debian documentation
saying useradd(8) is low-level and that adduser(8) should be used instead.
I don't see a way of telling adduser that the normal desktop user
should be enrolled in the appropriate groups.
I know how to add a user to a group, one at a time:
adduser user group
That seem tedious.
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