Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

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On Monday, September 28, 2020 01:28:01 AM Richard Hector wrote:
> On 26/09/20 2:47 pm, David Wright wrote:
> > If you make yourself a member of the adm group, you can read your logs
> > as a normal user. You'd need to type into any terminal
> > 
> > $ sudo addgroup myloginname adm
> > 
> > replacing myloginname as appropriate, but you will need to login again
> > before the addgroup command will have any effect.
> 
> I think you mean adduser rather than addgroup there:
> 
> $ sudo adduser myloginname adm
> 
> You're adding the user to the group, rather than the group to the user :-)

I think either will work:

from man adduser <one of five ways to invoke adduser>:

   Add an existing user to an existing group
       If  called  with  two non-option arguments, adduser will add an 
existing user to an existing group.


from man addgroup <one of five ways to invoke addgroup>:

   Add an existing user to an existing group
       If  called  with  two non-option arguments, adduser will add an 
existing user to an existing group.







> 
> Richard