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edudlive
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how to add myself tot he group "games"

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Post by edudlive » Sun Feb 22, 2004 12:18 am

I emerged the UT2k4 demo, but it said I have to be int he group "games"


How do I do that?
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Re: how to add myself tot he group "games"

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Post by kojiro » Sun Feb 22, 2004 12:22 am

edudlive wrote:I emerged the UT2k4 demo, but it said I have to be int he group "games"


How do I do that?
man usermod
>>> Also, customizing emacs can be an exercise in black magic.
>> It's not black magic, it's Lisp.
>There is a difference? :P
Yes, black magic doesn't use parentheses.
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Post by ckenda1 » Sun Feb 22, 2004 12:28 am

you could just edit the /etc/group file with root... and add your username next to the group name 'games'
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Post by kojiro » Sun Feb 22, 2004 12:40 am

ckenda1 wrote:you could just edit the /etc/group file with root... and add your username next to the group name 'games'
This is true, but on the other hand, if you misuse usermod, it'll give you an error message, but if you misuse /etc/group, it'll really mess up your system.
>>> Also, customizing emacs can be an exercise in black magic.
>> It's not black magic, it's Lisp.
>There is a difference? :P
Yes, black magic doesn't use parentheses.
--Linux Users' Group of Rochester mailing list
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Post by oldsk00l » Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:32 am

the non-apprehensive answer would be

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usermod -G games <username>
For those sick of rtfm responses.
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Post by pi314 » Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:58 am

[OT]I prefere this way: If you had RTFM page 3 line 4 then you whould know you must type <commands to type> into your terminal, but a good manpage is better then no answer at all :wink: [/OT]

thx oldsk00l - this was something I would have a closer look at tomorror - now there is no more need to do so 8)
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Post by Mongrol » Sun Feb 22, 2004 11:02 am

Problem with usermod is you need to specify all the groups the users already a member of on the -G arg, or it'll remove the user from any groups you don't list. Very crap.
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Post by link97381 » Sun Feb 22, 2004 11:30 pm

KDE has a nice program called KUser...makes editing users and groups easy
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