Permissions on /var/log/ files

T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingsworth at gmail.com
Thu Jul 18 01:59:06 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> system-config-users seems to be still available. It's moderately
> user-friendly. From the command line, I think 'gpasswd groupname -a
> username' is the easiest. (You can use groupmod, but it's got some gotchas
> with behavior where gpasswd is straightforward despite the
> irrelevant-sounding name.)

What gotchas, out of curiosity?

I've always done this with `usermod -aG group user`.  Would that also
be affected?

-T.C.


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