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manage groups in Ubuntu

Hi, I wanted to add myself to the group mail so I opened system settings>user accounts, but there is nothing there to manage user groups. Where and how do I do that? I'd rather use a gui than the command line.

See this link -->http://www.ubuntugeek.com/addmodify-...using-gui.html

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Sorry, but that link shows an old version of ubuntu, if I go to system settings > user accounts, there is no tab or button 'manage groups'

Here is what I see under user accounts.

Nothing about groups, nowhere

Then do it command line. You probably do not have something installed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pedroski (Post 4726854)

I wanted to add myself to the group mail ... I'd rather use a gui than the command line.

If you can possibly manage to try using the terminal for this you could easily do it with the gpasswd command:

Code:

sudo gpasswd -a pedroski mail

This assumes that your user name is pedroski and you are adding that user to the group mail.

You could also use the useradd command as is discussed here:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-l...user-to-group/

There is also the usermod command that will work for this:
http://nixcraft.com/ubuntu-debian/85...ser-group.html

This is a perfect example of a situation where the GUI may be inadequate, but a few seconds at the terminal can get the job done.