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I'm want to use adduser
However it doesn't seem to work if I provide the second argument for the user's group
root@a:~# adduser rick staff
adduser: The user `rick' does not exist.
The group exists
root@a:~# addgroup staff
addgroup: The group `staff' already exists.
The man page says this should work...
adduser [options] user group
Any ideas?
I can do:
adduser --ingroup staff rick
So no massive issue, just seems strange.
Rob
Posted 2011-11-11T16:31:40.667
Reputation: 649
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Rob, re-read the error message from adduser command: The user rick does not exist.. Later you write about group staff, which does exist. But adduser failed because user rick does not exist yet.
Matej Kovac
Posted 2011-11-11T16:31:40.667
Reputation: 366
you're right, my bad, it's not clear from the man page but what im trying to run requires an existing user, so using --ingroup is what I want. – Rob – 2011-11-14T11:02:55.867
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If you are trying to add an user and add this user to a group, you should:
adduser newuser
usermod -aG thegroup newuser
If thegroup isn't yet created, you should create it before the usermod:
groupadd thegroup
ata
Posted 2011-11-11T16:31:40.667
Reputation: 141
Thanks for the answer but I know how, im asking why the documented method of adduser does not work – Rob – 2011-11-11T17:24:10.620
1@Rob perhaps you are lookin for --gid or --ingroup ? – ata – 2011-11-11T18:27:18.147
As per my original question, --ingroup works fine, this is nothing to do with groups, I'm trying to raise that there's an issue with adduser [options] user group – Rob – 2011-11-14T10:56:30.607
Could you pastebin
man adduser? Seems odd... – Pricey – 2011-11-11T16:38:35.223