From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grof0-0005jA-9M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 13:44:31 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1groez-0004hr-CW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 13:44:30 -0500 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:43166 helo=mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1groez-0004g9-70 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 13:44:29 -0500 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098413.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.27/8.16.0.27) with SMTP id x17IdXjZ044072 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2019 13:44:27 -0500 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com (e35.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.153]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2qgrq0wmne-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 13:44:26 -0500 Received: from localhost by e35.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 7 Feb 2019 18:44:25 -0000 From: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 16:43:46 -0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20190207184346.6840-1-muriloo@linux.ibm.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs/devel/testing: Add -a option to usermod command on docker setup List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: mopsfelder@gmail.com, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo , =?UTF-8?q?Philippe=20Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , Fam Zheng , =?UTF-8?q?Alex=20Benn=C3=A9e?= , =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= , Cleber Rosa , qemu-trivial@nongnu.org The option -G of usermod command will remove user from other groups not listed, i.e.: $USER will belong only to group 'docker' after following the documentation as is. >>From usermod(8) manual page: If the user is currently a member of a group which is not listed, the user will be removed from the group. This behaviour can be changed via the -a option, which appends the user to the current supplementary group list. This patch improves the situation by adding the -a option to the usermod command, which will just append user to the supplementary group list. Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org Signed-off-by: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo --- docs/devel/testing.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst index 18e2c0868a..135743a2bf 100644 --- a/docs/devel/testing.rst +++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ An alternative method to set up permissions is by adding the current user to .. code:: $ sudo groupadd docker - $ sudo usermod $USER -G docker + $ sudo usermod $USER -a -G docker $ sudo chown :docker /var/run/docker.sock Note that any one of above configurations makes it possible for the user to -- 2.20.1