I just noticed that is what he was doing. $USER is a placeholder (variable if you will) for your username, not $yourusername.

Good catch.

-Chance

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 7:03 PM Jim Unroe <rock.unroe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> adduser $USER dialout
>
> root@holmzie-All-Series:/home/holmzie# adduser $holmzie dialout
> adduser: The group `dialout' already exists.
>
> That's what I got.
>

Stop putting the $ in front of your username.

Jim KC9HI
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