On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 10:15:33AM +0000, dalton.c.russell wrote: > I double checked with id and it does show that my user is in the wheel group > but if i look at /etc/groups it isn’t listed next to wheel.
What arguments did you pass to usermod exactly? > is usermod supposed to modify /etc/groups? If you invoked it as: # usermod -G wheel my_username or # usermod -S wheel,my_username my_username then it should have done what you wanted and updated /etc/groups appropriately.