users and groups

[H.S.]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>     If you want this user to be able to use another Desktop he must be 
>> given the Group that can use this. You do this with  addgroup as root.
> 
> Wrong.  All addgroup does is add a group with the GID optionally
> specified on the command line.  It does not add users /to/ groups.  As
> the man page says, "The group is created with no users."  To add a user
> to the group, you use usermod as I already said.

Or just use adduser thus:
$> sudo adduser username group

where username is the user you want to add to "group".

To remove a user form a group, use:
$> sudo deluser username group




->HS



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