[gobolinux-users] group management problems with usermod, useradd, etc

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 2/2/07, Hi There <goboster at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Anyone else having trouble with adding users to a
> group? Not sure which package these utils come with,
> but I have coreutils 6.7
>
> root <at> Home /Programs/CUPS/Current]usermod -a -G lp
> root
> usermod: invalid numeric argument 'lp'
> root <at> Home /Programs/CUPS/Current]usermod -a -G 9
> root
> usermod: unknown group 9
>
> unless I'm supposed to be entering octal or something
> it looks like lp is group # 9
> lp:x:9:
>
> same errors with useradd -g
>
> The /etc/group and passwd files are ok.

The syntax seems to be:

] usermod -a lp -G lp root

Pretty redundant, but it works.

-- 
Lucas
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