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


How do I do that?

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

you could just edit the /etc/group file with root... and add your username next to the group name 'games'

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.

the non-apprehensive answer would be
For those sick of rtfm responses.

[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 [/OT]

thx oldsk00l - this was something I would have a closer look at tomorror - now there is no more need to do so

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.

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