Re: Secondary groups missing?

[Alex]

Hi,
> This user belongs to a number of other groups.
> > $ grep ^alex /etc/group
> > alex:x:1003:group1,group2
>
> You're doing that wrong.  You just added non-existent users to your
> "alex" group.  You should probably use the "usermod" command instead of
> directly editing the file.
>
> usermod -a -G group1 alex

Yes, thank you - got it backwards in my old age.