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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: How do I add a user to multiple groups?
From:       Tito <farmatito () tiscali ! it>
Date:       2007-07-28 21:27:33
Message-ID: 200707282327.33710.farmatito () tiscali ! it
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On Saturday 28 July 2007 14:26:37 Dallas Clement wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I'd like to use the busybox 'adduser' command to add a user to multiple
> groups.  Can anyone show me how to do this?
> 
> This is an example of what I would like the group file to look like
> afterward:
> 
> dallas@debian:~/fs-images/common/etc$ cat group
> root::0:root
> bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon
> daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon
> sys:x:3:root,bin
> tty:*:4:root,tty
> sshd:x:33:sshd
> 
> As you can see, the 'root' user is a member of multiple groups.
> 
> It would be nice if I could do something like this, but it does not
> work:
>
>adduser -h /root -g "root user" -s /bin/ash -G 0 -G 1 -G 2 -G 3 -G 4 root

Hi,
something like this should do the trick:

adduser -h /root -g "root user" -s /bin/ash root
addgroup root root    <- this is probably not needed as it is the user's default group
addgroup root bin
addgroup root daemon
addgroup root sys
addgroup root tty

Ciao,
Tito
> 
> Thanks,
> Dallas
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