jamiil wrote:
> As you suggested I typed
> $>groups myname
> output -> myname: myname dip
> but since I also want to be able to play music stored in my HHD and
> CDROM I did the following:
> username -G dialout, fax,voice,audio,dip,video,gdm,camera my name
>
> Now, using KDE->Multimedia->Volum Contro, I get a message saying
> "Sorry, no mixier elements and/or device found"
>
> I was able to use the Volum Control before!
> What did I do wrong?(!)

Perhaps one ore more spaces between the group names? (Like above.)
A space will be interpreted as the end of the group list.

From the usermod(8) manpage:

-G group,[...]
A list of supplementary groups which the user is also a member
of. Each group is separated from the next by a comma, with no
intervening whitespace. The groups are subject to the same
restrictions as the group given with the -g option. If the user
is currently a member of a group which is not listed, the user
will be removed from the group


Regards,

Kees.

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Kees Theunissen.