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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Adding root user to a group Post 87291 by blowtorch on Saturday 22nd of October 2005 01:46:58 AM
Old 10-22-2005
You have things slightly mixed up. useradd is used to add a new user to the system. If you want to edit the attributes of an existing user, you have to use usermod. Run the following command:
Code:
usermod -G beoper root

This will add beoper to the list of groups that root is already a member of. Here is the man page for usermod.
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

user

USER(8) 						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						   USER(8)

NAME

     user -- manage user login information on the system

SYNOPSIS

     user add -D [options]
     user add [options] user
     user del -D [options]
     user del [options] user
     user info [options] user
     user mod [options] user

DESCRIPTION

     The user utility acts as a frontend to the useradd(8), usermod(8), userinfo(8), and userdel(8) commands.  The utilities by default are built
     with EXTENSIONS.  This allows for further functionality.

     For a full explanation of the options available, please see the relevant manual page.

EXIT STATUS

     The user utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

FILES

     /etc/skel/.[A-z]*		   Skeleton files for new user
     /etc/usermgmt.conf 	   Configuration file for user, group(8) and the backend commands mentioned above.

SEE ALSO

     chpass(1), group(5), passwd(5), usermgmt.conf(5), useradd(8), userdel(8), userinfo(8), usermod(8)

HISTORY

     The user utility first appeared in NetBSD 1.5.  It is based on the addnerd package by the same author.

AUTHORS

     The user utility was written by Alistair G. Crooks <agc@NetBSD.org>.

BSD
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