Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Typo on UdevConfig page in wiki?

[Eric A. Cottrell]

Eric Blossom wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 08:41:24PM -0500, Eric A. Cottrell wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I finally got my main computer fixed, hardware upgraded, and OpenSuSE
>> 10.3 installed.  I noticed going through the wiki instructions when
>> installing gnuradio in 10.2 and now 10.3 that one command maybe wrong
>> at  http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/UdevConfig.  Currently it is:
>>
>>     Add a user to the group
>>
>>      # /usr/sbin/usermod -a usrp [username]
>>
>>     If your copy of usermod does not support this syntax try
>>
>>      # /usr/sbin/usermod -G usrp -a [username]
>>
>>
>> It appears that the -a should not be included in the second command
>> line.  When I used the form below it added [username] to the usrp
>> group.  I think the wiki needs to be corrected but I am not 100% sure.
>>
>>     If your copy of usermod does not support this syntax try
>>
>>      # /usr/sbin/usermod -G usrp [username]
>>
>> 73 Eric
>>     
>
> Not sure.  Check it out, and please fix it on the wiki.
>
> FWIW, I just edit /etc/group with emacs ;)
>
> Eric
>
>   
Hello,

I did research and for Redhat/Fedora based distributions the -a is
needed.  The -a means append and without it a user would only be a
member of the usrp group.  So I will add some more information to make
it clearer.


73 Eric