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.

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