Lost sound and video input - kubuntu 7.10

[Derek Broughton]

Colin Pinkney wrote:

> On Thursday 10 Jan 2008, Bruce Bales wrote:
>> I think the problem began about the time I tried to add my name to the
>> geneweb group.  (That didn't work, but geneweb is working for me.)

Ding!  

You used usermod and forgot the -a option.  

# sudo usermod -a -G geneweb bruce

adds the group "geneweb" to your secondary groups.

# sudo usermod -G geneweb bruce

_makes_ "geneweb" your secondary group

That's one of the stupidest default options I've ever seen, but I've been
forced to do it a lot recently, because I've somehow b0rked the KDE user
maintenance program (of course, fixing kuser might be a good idea...).
-- 
derek