Hi, I've sometimes found my way here by way of search engines, and often the answers here are what I need. Today, I did not find the answer to my question, but I found the answer to someone else's question that just so happened to be what I needed to know. I, therefore, shared the info and to do that I needed an account and so here I am.

I first booted Linux in 1992, I've used Debian almost exclusively since 1998 or so, and I program Linux for Hewlett Packard Enterprise as my day job. I do embedded systems and robotics, primarily. I hope that I can contribute to this invaluable resource.

Greetings Jonathan. You certainly are a seasoned GNU/Linux user.

The only problem that I've found with being a seasoned user is that a lot of the ways that I learned for doing things, while they almost always still work (I miss ifconfig) are no longer taught to people so I have a hard time answering the questions of new users.

Like this, a few years ago I was hanging out on a Linux help channel on IRC and someone asked a question about how to get added to a group. I'm like "That's easy, you just edit /etc/groups and add your username to all the groups" and guys were like, "Dude, nobody edits group files any more. You use useradd for that." That was more than a decade ago, and I have no idea if there's yet another way of doing it. I still edit /etc/groups.

Old habits die hard.

Hi Jonathan, and welcome to LQ.