fortified_banana ( @fortified_banana@beehaw.org ) English49•2 months agoLooks like you’re on Fedora Silverblue (or other Atomic version). This is happening because the system groups are in /usr/lib/group rather than /etc/group and this causes the issue you’re seeing here. You can work around it by getting into a root shell with something like
sudo -i
and then getting the group added to /etc/group with
grep -E '^dialout' /usr/lib/group >> /etc/group
after that, you’ll be able to add your user to the group with
usermod -aG dialout pipe
Right on the money, that’s what I ended up doing. Thanks!
Artyom ( @Artyom@lemm.ee ) 9•2 months agoIs that considered a feature for some reason? That seems objectively terrible.
fortified_banana ( @fortified_banana@beehaw.org ) English7•2 months agoNo, it’s a side effect of how everything’s handled by rpm-ostree currently, and it’s on the list of issues to be fixed.
frezik ( @frezik@midwest.social ) 6•2 months agoWhy can’t we keep system config things in /etc? It’s a method that works in unsurprising ways.
jkrtn ( @jkrtn@lemmy.ml ) 5•2 months agoIs etc the mutable part? Would you have to do this again to add more users after a reboot?
fortified_banana ( @fortified_banana@beehaw.org ) English5•2 months ago/etc is writable, so no reboots are required. That said, /etc is treated in a special way and each deployment will have its own /etc, based on the previous one.
So if you make changes to /etc then revert to a previous deployment, your changes will be reverted as well. But if you make changes and upgrade (or do whatever to create a new deployment), your changes will bu preserved.
jkrtn ( @jkrtn@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 months agoThat’s really helpful to understand the caveats, thank you.
KindaABigDyl ( @KindaABigDyl@programming.dev ) 4•2 months agoIt’s like when I run into some issue with how I’ve set up my system in NixOS and have to explain to a non-Linux user that it isn’t Linux that’s the issue but how I’m using an especially weird Linux lol
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ditty ( @dditty@lemm.ee ) English5•2 months ago Dark Arc ( @Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ) English3•2 months agoYeah this one is ridiculous. There are some systems that have bounced my password … literally the one stored in a password manager … and gaslite me that I “must have forgotten my password.”
drspod ( @drspod@lemmy.ml ) 19•2 months agoIf you want to add an existing user to an existing group, use:
usermod -a -G
FizzyOrange ( @FizzyOrange@programming.dev ) 7•2 months agoEven if “isn’t that bad” were true, it’s hardly a stunning endorsement. I wish Linux aimed higher than “not that bad”, but it always seems to hit “only some bits are broken”.
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