Comments on: Howto: Linux Add User To Group

By: miquel

miquel — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:11:00 +0000

Nice explanation

By: ratna

ratna — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:51:44 +0000

R u still in same Domain?

Regards
Ratna

By: vlad the impaler

vlad the impaler — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:43:20 +0000

Can you please emboss, move to top, highlight, make it red and blink FFS !!!
99 % of the people want an user added to an existing group, not moved.
Only on Linux, add is a special type of move (sarcasm).

Please, for this tutorial of yours, that comes up on google, this is what we want:
usermod -a -G ftp tony
not this:
usermod -G ftp tony

Maybe with time we will learn Linux and face this issues more bravely, but most of us that come here have rather trivial experience with Linux, we want to learn.. but we want to learn how to add an user to a group (of course existing, is the natural way) no how to damage our systems.

Call me stupid, but it is the 2nd time I revisit this issue, being forced to again reinstall my linux box because of damaging my sudoers list.

Please, put a big red or whatever flashy warning on top of the article, notifying people about the sudeoers bite.

By: Vivek

Vivek — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:04:07 +0000

Any idea howto add existing group into another existing group ?

Ex: test1 – group has 5 users
test2 – group has 3 users

i want to add test1 group to be part of test2, instead of adding the users.

By: da_fatfinger

da_fatfinger — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:48:17 +0000

I made the mistake of not including -a in usermod as well, now im locked of doing anything useful in ubuntu. Granted i’m a linux newbie, so hard lessons like this are bound to happen, but you would save many headaches with just a small, clear explanation at the top about how flags (especially -a) are vital to how usermod works. Since you are THE top google hit for “linux add user to group”, you would save a lot of people some serious pain.

By: Laxman Rana

Laxman Rana — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:37:53 +0000

thanks this tutorial to learn about user add with group’s modification…
nicely this iz working on my pc in linux……………

By: Extra

Extra — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:02:25 +0000

Oh yeah man! This is the best site i ever meet, on helping users to quick find the answer to concrete Question! Thank you so much for the FAQ archive! wish you the best thinks.
this is the primary site, that i search for responses to Linux Q’s.

By: Rashid

Rashid — Thu, 12 May 2011 10:50:28 +0000

thanks for sharing useful and knowledgeable topic

By: Rodislav Moldovan

Rodislav Moldovan — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:01:02 +0000

#works in Debian 6
Add user to a new group, by keeping old groups
usermod -a -G AdditionalGroup User

-a append
-G group name

By: emiat

emiat — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:52:12 +0000

what is the 1st step on how to add group in active directory 2003? And 1st step of how to add group in active directory?

emiat.

By: emiat

emiat — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:43:28 +0000

tnx a lot

By: NURUL HUDA

NURUL HUDA — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:04:32 +0000

I have lost my all inbox mails unexpectedly.Is it possible to retrive again?please help me.

By: syed

syed — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:53:17 +0000

i have need in one account and multiple sign

By: dx

dx — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:06:01 +0000

how many users can be in a group? i want to add 500 users to group mailusers. wont that be slowing down my mailserver?

regards

By: Tom O'Connell

Tom O'Connell — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:22:38 +0000

I am using Mint 9 and have no knowledge of either command line or archive manager.
Can you steer me to the easiest tutorial.

Thanks,

By: nic

nic — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:49:07 +0000

I like to use a “for” loop for this. For exampled

for i in group1 group2 group3 ...; do adduser $i; done

By: selven

selven — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:44:28 +0000

seriously, this is so gay! in my days to add a user to a group, we just had to add it in /etc/group! i don’t understand why there should be a “tool” to complicate it!

By: indir

indir — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:25:46 +0000

thanks, its works for me :)

By: shane williamson

shane williamson — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:03:58 +0000

Okay these commands DO NOT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: uzer

uzer — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:51:24 +0000

Hey, I’m getting
[user@localhost ~]$ sudo su
[sudo] password for user:
user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.