how to add additional more group to an existing user

Allanitto Newbee · 05-30-2009, 04:35 PM

Hi,

How to add an existing user to a particular group like ftp?

Thanks

puntjuh · 05-30-2009, 04:42 PM

Too add an existing user to a group, use the following line, taking ftp group as an example:

usermod -Gftp puntjuh

where puntjuh is changed to the appropriate user and ftp to the appropriate group.

This will add the user to a new group.

If you want to change the users primary group, you use a non-capital g instead of the capital G.

Good luck!

norobro · 05-30-2009, 04:43 PM

Check out the man page for "adduser"

saagar · 05-30-2009, 11:20 PM

usermod -G <secondary_group> <username>
eg.usermod -G sales saagar
This command has a problem...If you want to add one more secondary group to saagar, say culturals group, then
if we do
usermod -G culturals saagar,
and now if you type

id saagar,

then you will see only culturals as saagar's secondary group and sales is lost.
so i think follwing is the better way:

gpasswd -a saagar sales
gpasswd -a saagar culturals.

id saagar
now saagar will be in both sales and culturals secondary groups.

billymayday · 05-30-2009, 11:55 PM

I think you guys may mean

usermod -a -G ftp user

or similar don't you?

Allanitto Newbee · 05-31-2009, 08:41 AM

Thanks guys,

They are really useful. I added my user to group ftp already with your help.

Ciao