adding user to additional groups

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/archsetup b/archsetup
index d5644e5..f6577b3 100755
--- a/archsetup
+++ b/archsetup
@@ -264,6 +264,11 @@ create_user () {
     display "task" "assigning the password"
     echo "$username:$password" | chpasswd  # any text is allowable! be careful!
 
+    display "task" "adding to appropriate groups"
+    (usermod -aG \
+             sys,adm,network,scanner,power,uucp,audio,lp,rfkill,video,storage,optical,users \
+             "$username" >> "$logfile" 2>&1) || error "crash" "adding $username to groups" "$?"
+
     display "task" "configuring shell"
     # zsh cache required: $username will install via yay; zsh will run those commands
     mkdir -p "/home/$username/.cache/zsh/" | tee -a "$logfile"