[505] in athena10
Re: Suggested amendments to the Athena10 docs.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Sep 16 17:40:33 2008
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:39:48 -0400
Additionally, if useradd/userdel don't work, and usermod isn't
supposed to work, what are the other ways to add an Athena user to the
admin group, without involving local accounts.
-Jon
On Sep 16, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>
> On Sep 16, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Tim Abbott wrote:
>>
>> I think you used usermod, not adduser when you wrote the
>> documentation; usermod I believe is incorrectly not affected by this.
>>
>> There are ways -- it's just that the adduser command isn't one of
>> them.
>>
>> adduser.debathena-orig wdc admin
>>
>> would work (you can read /usr/sbin/adduser.debathena to get a hint
>> of what's going on here). Ther'es a prettier ways too.
>>
>> -Tim Abbott
>
> The method I used, documented on athena10.mit.edu, is with userdel
> and useradd, not deluser and adduser.
>
> Or are they both NSS aware?
>
> I will try a complete wipe and re-install of my machine tomorrow, to
> ensure that the instructions are correct. Still, if they're wrong,
> I'm sad that no one noticed until now.
>
> -Jon
