On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 at 18:43, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > | From: Znoteer via talk <[email protected]> > > Thanks for your reply. It seems that I didn't miss anything obvious. > > It would be good to have a list of the powers granted by each group > measurement. This belongs in debian documentation. Unfortunately there > are several reasonable places. group(5)? > > Interesting/inconvenient change to EXTRA_GROUPS. I wonder why? Probably > security. > > | On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 04:12:18PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | > 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 > > I found a hack easier. Just use a text editor's global search and > replace silly$ with silly,hugh. Except for group silly.
Thanks for walking through the details everyone. It's something I'd wondered about and never pursued - good to know the ins-and-outs. -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
