Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:19:45PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of which, are the command line user/group management tools
>> (adduser, etc.) going to leave something undone if I use them instead?
>> Or, if I use vipw and hand-copy the bash skeleton, for a user, am I
>> going to regret it later?
>>
> Last time I used it, adduser did not add a user to all the default
> groups that the GUI does. You'll need to do that manually.
You have to set ADD_EXTRA_GROUPS and EXTRA_GROUPS in "/etc/adduser.conf".
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