What are the default groups root belongs to?

hadibg · 08-24-2009, 11:50 AM

Hey all,

I did a newbie mistake - I did not read the usermod manual thoroughly.
I wanted to add the root user to an existing group - himerge.
I used

Code:

usermod -G himerge root

By Murphy's law my battery
died right after I realized what I had done.
I still have root access and haven't noticed any problems yet, but I am worried.
Can someone please list the default groups, that root is a member of, so I can add root back?
I use sabayon 4.2, kernel 2.6.29.
Thanks.

f14f21 · 08-24-2009, 02:42 PM

#cat /etc/group | grep root
root:x:0:root
bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon
daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon
sys:x:3:root,bin,adm
adm:x:4:root,adm,daemon
disk:x:6:root
wheel:x:10:root

so
#usermod -G himerge,root,bin,daemon,sys,disk,adm,wheel root

hadibg · 08-25-2009, 06:38 AM

Thank you very much.
I just did that and now root is as it should be.