Re: groups

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>]

Roland Bauerschmidt <roland@copyleft.de> writes:

> I think it would be nice to have a command, let's call it group or whatever
> which could be used to add and remove users from specific groups in
> /etc/group:
> 
> group dialout add roland
>  # adds user roland to group dialout

Use `adduser roland dialout' to do this.

> group dialout del roland
>  # removes user roland from group dialout

I don't know of an easy way to do that either, so such a tool
would likely be helpful.
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