Your Question: How Do I Assign a User to a Group in Linux?
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How do you add a user to a group in Linux?

  1. To create a new group, enter the following: sudo groupadd new_group. …
  2. Use the adduser command to add a user to a group: sudo adduser user_name new_group. …
  3. To delete a group, use the command: sudo groupdel new_group.
  4. Linux comes with several different groups by default.

6 нояб. 2019 г.

How do I assign a user to a group?

To add an existing user account to a group on your system, use the usermod command, replacing examplegroup with the name of the group you want to add the user to and exampleusername with the name of the user you want to add.

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