adding user to group
 

Hi Guys,

How can I add a user to a group?

You can either use the userdrake program as root or the gpasswd command:
gpasswd -a user group

My 2nd box is not mandrake its redhat...

usermod userid -G group

usermod -G group
see man usermod

For Red Hat I think it is redhat-config-users for the gui

Oks. I'll try this command... How can I confirm that user has been added to the group?

Thanks

Oks... try this one also... thanks

the command is actually
usermod -G groupname userid

to check if the person is in the group you can do,

cat /etc/group
or
cat /etc/group | more

a list of groups and their corresponding users will be shown. There are probably other ways to do it, but I find this quite fast.

Thanks for the quick reply I will try this on my box

If you perform id user_name, i think it'll list, at the end, all the groups the user belongs to. You can try that too.