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How to add user into group.

I want to add a user "smith" into marketing group using terminal.Please guide me that how can I do it ?

thanks
garden

Hello,

Have a look at the usermod command:

Code:

man usermod

Kind regards,

Eric

well I have use the command

[root@localhost home]# usermod -d marketing smith

How can I check that in marketing group there is a smith user.Which file should I see for it ?
thanks
garden

You can see users in /etc/passwd and groups in /etc/group

Quote:

Originally Posted by gardenair (Post 4258647)

well I have use the command

[root@localhost home]# usermod -d marketing smith

How can I check that in marketing group there is a smith user.Which file should I see for it ?
thanks
garden

Hi,

Have you looked at the man page of usermod?

Code:

-d, --home HOME_DIR

          The user's new login directory.

The -d option is used to set a new home directory. If you want to add a user to an additional group you use the -G option:

Code:

 -G, --groups GROUP1[,GROUP2,...[,GROUPN]]]

          A list of supplementary groups which the user is also a member of. Each group is separated from the next by a comma, with no intervening whitespace. The groups are subject to the same restrictions as the group given with the -g option.



          If the user is currently a member of a group which is not listed, the user will be removed from the group. This behaviour can be changed via the -a option, which appends the user to the current supplementary group list.

Also you can check group membership simply by using:

Code:

id <username>

which will give you something like:

Code:

uid=1000(eric) gid=1000(eric) groups=1000(eric),4(adm),7(lp),21(fax),27(sudo)

Kind regards,

Eric

well one thing confusing me that when i create a new user like xyz user I can see its name in /etc/group file as
xyz:x:501
and if I add xyz user into marketing then in /etc/group file it show
marketing:x:502:

The question is when a new user is just created by its entry is also shown in /etc/group file .What is the reason ?

Hello,

When you create a new user, automatically a group with the same name gets created. This groupID (gid) gets used for example when the user creates a file. Then the default group association of that file will be that same groupID. Hope that helps. You can change that group association at any time. You can also add a user to additional groups as explained above. Sycamorex pointed you to a very good tutorial in post #3, I suggest you read it, it contains very good information.

Kind regards,

Eric

thanks for your reply. I have review the site as well. Well I am showing following how I add "john" Primary group and then secondary group ?

Creating user

Code:

#adduser john

Now adding password

Code:

#passwd john

Now adding into group

Code:

#groupadd fisrgroup

Now adding user join into group i.e firstgroup

Code:

#usermod -d firstgroup john

for secondary group

Code:

#groupadd secondgroup

Creating users

Code:

#adduser john,jill,jack,harry

Now adding into group

Code:

#groupadd secondgroup

Now adding user john,jill,jack,harry into group i.e secondgroup

Code:

#usermod -d secondgroup john,jill,jack,harry

please guide me that my steps are correct or not ?

useradd -G marketing smith

I think the above should work perfectly for having a secondary group for the user smith

Quote:

Originally Posted by gardenair (Post 4261377)

Code:

#usermod -d firstgroup john

Code:

#usermod -d secondgroup john,jill,jack,harry

Hello,

Why are you sticking to -d as parameter to usermod? Haven't you read my post (#6)? Or do you have a different version of usermod that switched -G for -d?

Kind regards,

Eric

The problem with the man page might be that the options -A and -R to add/remove groups from the supplementary groups list are not listed. Or is this only an undocumented openSUSE extension?

But I also don't get the OP whether the user "smith" in question already exists and should only be added to the group "marketing" or whether he must be created completely.