what's wrong with my command in usermod?

[Michael R. Head]

On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 15:52 +0100, Gabriel M Dragffy wrote:
> Looking at the help output/man pages of usermod, I find this:
> 
>  -G, --groups GROUPS           list of supplementary groups
>                 -a, --append    Use -a option to append the user
> 
> So the -a should append said user to the list of groups. If I attemp the
> following command I get an unexpected result:
> 
> $ sudo usermod -a nogroup username
> Password:
> Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN
> 
> And it just continues to list the help pages. Hmmm! I guess I'm reading
> it wrong, but which part?

I prefer "sudo adduser username nogroup"

mike

> Cheers,
> Gabe
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
suppressingfire.org
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