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Adding root to a group

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Mar 15, 202634934 views
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Problem

I am not new to Linux, but there's this strange behaviour I'm seeing on my Fedora 15 box. I want to add the superuser to a group called, say, . ^^ is absent. Surprisingly, when I thought of editing , was present there! Anyone on why didn't show my new addition?

Error Output

# usermod -a -G thisgroup root
# groups
# root bin daemon sys adm disk wheel
#

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Fix for: Adding root to a group

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From the manpage of the command: This is exactly your case: the group database has changed, but the group membership for the current process hasn't been updated. If you instead queried the group memberships for the user you would have got the correc…

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