add user to group in Leopard

Neil Laubenthal neil at laubenthal.net
Tue Dec 11 04:54:30 PST 2007


Quoting David Herren <david at idiomatrix.com>:

> You may have misunderstood my question. In that UI there is no way to
> _add_ an _existing_ group to an _existing_ user, not _change_ an
> existing users _primary_ group. The accounts interface allows one
> create a _new_ group by clicking the plus to add a user but then switch
> the popup to a group, and then add existing users to your new group.
> But if I want to add a user who already has an account and home
> directory, to a group already on the machine, the UI you suggest does
> not allow for that.


I'm not at home where I can look . . . but try the Sharing pane; there  
is some ability to manipulate users and groups there as well. I think  
you can do this directly from that preference pane.





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