Decided to give FreeBSD a spin inside a VM to see what’s new. They don’t seem to let you manually edit/etc/group anymore. The first thing I used to do after creating an account was add it to the wheel group. Oh you can edit the file but the change isn’t respected. You have to use a command to add yourself. I know its in the handbook but what the fuck? I hate running into dumb shit like that.
Your posts are up to their usual high-quality standards I see.
1) launch FreeBSD 13 vm 2) login as root 3) add a new user 4) vi/etc/group 5) add new user to wheel (you might also want the "operator" group). save. 6) id newuser
That's all it takes. Much like vipw for editing passwd (necessary), vigr has been around for years as well, and offers some format checking. Plain vi works just fine.
They’re doing dumb shit lately (Score:-1, Troll)
Decided to give FreeBSD a spin inside a VM to see what’s new. They don’t seem to let you manually edit /etc/group anymore. The first thing I used to do after creating an account was add it to the wheel group. Oh you can edit the file but the change isn’t respected. You have to use a command to add yourself. I know its in the handbook but what the fuck? I hate running into dumb shit like that.
Re:They’re doing dumb shit lately (Score:2)
Your posts are up to their usual high-quality standards I see.
1) launch FreeBSD 13 vm /etc/group
2) login as root
3) add a new user
4) vi
5) add new user to wheel (you might also want the "operator" group). save.
6) id newuser
That's all it takes. Much like vipw for editing passwd (necessary), vigr has been around for years as well, and offers some format checking. Plain vi works just fine.