Your command is correct when adding a new user and assigning them to the dialout group as their primary group. (and may work to add that user to a new group as well but I have never tried that)

The command on the page noted is correct for adding a user to a group when that user already exists. Look at the man page for *usermod* and see what it says.

-------------------------------- NAME usermod - modify a user account

SYNOPSIS usermod [options] LOGIN

DESCRIPTION The usermod command modifies the system account files.

OPTIONS The options which apply to the usermod command are:

-a, --append Add the user to the supplementary group(s). Use only with the -G option.

-G, --groups GROUP1[,GROUP2,...[,GROUPN]]] 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 must exist.

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. -----------

Jeff KI7GJG

On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 2:27 PM Dave B via chirp_users < chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:

FYI.

The info at :- https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/ChirpOnLinux

Is in error regarding adding a user to a group on Debian based systems.

The example terminal command under "Serial port permissions" should be....

*$ sudo adduser $USER dialout*

Note: Just $USER and no quotes! The system of couse, will ask for the users password.

And then as said, Logout and Log back in again for it to take effect.

This has been checked on Linux Mint, a derivative of Ubuntu, from Debian of course.

73. Dave G8KBV.

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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 17:04:33 -0400 From: John KB2SCS kb2scsjb@gmail.com kb2scsjb@gmail.com Subject: [chirp_users] Chirp On Puppy Linux To: Chirp chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Message-ID: CAHBPgZGTs-6gr6yoSzeftMoKji6=449b69WkuVGh2sRvrnoaWA@mail.gmail.com CAHBPgZGTs-6gr6yoSzeftMoKji6=449b69WkuVGh2sRvrnoaWA@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Hi All To run the python 2 version of chirp I would download the .tar.gz file and extract it to a directory. I would then open a terminal window in that directory. Then run Chirp with the following command Python Chirpw.py

I am trying to run the python 3 version of chirp using the same method. My first problem is there is not any chirps.py file to run so I have no idea which file is the one I should run.

My question is how do I run the latest version of chirp running the source code?

Thank you all for your time in reading this email.

Best regards John