Hi Hugh, On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 04:12:18PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > 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?
This is new in Bookworm, and I hadn't noticed it until you brought this up. You need to edit /etc/adduser.conf. For Bullseye, and as long as I can remember before that, EXTRA_GROUPS="dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev users". However, as a result of your question I've discovered that /etc/adduser.conf has been changed, and now EXTRA_GROUPS="users" in my Bookworm system. It seems that ADD_EXTRA_GROUPS has changed, too. It is 1 on a Bullseys system but 0 on Bookworm. This does not to appear to have prevented my users from being added to "users", though. > > Is there a magic shortcut to getting hugh added to all these groups? Don't know about a magic shortcut, but here is the command to add groups to a user: $ sudo usermod -a -G "group1,group2,group3,....,groupN" hugh [snip] > What's the normal way of adding users? I read debian documentation Indeed, it is adduser, but with /etc/adduser.conf modified to suit your needs. I have no idea why this change was made in Debian. All the best, -- Znoteer [email protected] --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
