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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] bug in usermod, full name of options doesn't work
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:53:02
Message-Id: yu9ac0ob0k9.fsf@nyu.edu
1 Goal: add gottlieb to group scanner.
2
3 It seems that -aG works but --append --groups doesn't
4
5 I will file a bug in b.g.o. unless I did something wrong.
6
7 thanks in advance
8 allan
9
10 ajglap portage # usermod --groups scanner --append gottlieb
11 Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN
12
13 Options:
14 -a, --append append the user to the supplemental GROUPS
15 (use only with -G)
16 -c, --comment COMMENT new value of the GECOS field
17 -d, --home HOME_DIR new home directory for the user account
18 -e, --expiredate EXPIRE_DATE set account expiration date to EXPIRE_DATE
19 -f, --inactive INACTIVE set password inactive after expiration
20 to INACTIVE
21 -g, --gid GROUP force use GROUP as new primary group
22 -G, --groups GROUPS new list of supplementary GROUPS
23 -h, --help display this help message and exit
24 -l, --login NEW_LOGIN new value of the login name
25 -L, --lock lock the user account
26 -m, --move-home move contents of the home directory to the new
27 location (use only with -d)
28 -o, --non-unique allow using duplicate (non-unique) UID
29 -p, --password PASSWORD use encrypted password for the new password
30 -s, --shell SHELL new login shell for the user account
31 -u, --uid UID new UID for the user account
32 -U, --unlock unlock the user account
33
34 ajglap portage # usermod -aG scanner gottlieb
35 ajglap portage # grep gottlieb /etc/group
36 wheel:x:10:root,gottlieb
37 cron:x:16:cron,gottlieb
38 audio:x:18:gottlieb
39 cdrom:x:19:haldaemon,gottlieb
40 video:x:27:root,gottlieb
41 games:x:35:gottlieb
42 cdrw:x:80:gottlieb,haldaemon
43 portage:x:250:portage,gottlieb
44 gottlieb:x:1502:
45 scanner:x:1504:gottlieb
46 plugdev:x:1507:gottlieb,haldaemon
47 --
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] bug in usermod, full name of options doesn't work "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
Re: [gentoo-user] bug in usermod, full name of options doesn't work Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>