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Name: rz
Date: March 11, 2003 at 09:49:36 Pacific
OS: solaris
CPU/Ram: 4/400MHZ
Comment:

When I try to add a group to a user through admintool I get error message modify user failed. I login as root



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Name: Ham
Date: March 12, 2003 at 04:17:05 Pacific
Reply:

You can by simply adding the user into the group name in /etc/group.

or #usermod -G login


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Response Number 2
Name: Ham
Date: March 12, 2003 at 04:18:34 Pacific
Reply:

ops..sorry I meant
#usermod -G [groupname] login


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