Note: These instructions are not valid for Ubuntu maverick 10.10. Please update. Command line workaround: If you are looking to add a new user to a group (e.g. add the apache (www-data) user to the subversion group), then open a terminal and enter the following: sudo adduser www-data subversion

To add an existing user (eg yourself) to a group, open a terminal and enter the following: sudo usermod -a -G subversion www-data

User and Group management for system users

As default, the user configuration does not show system users. For granting group membership to e.g. apache (account www-data), you should change this: 1. Start gconf settings editor: Alt+F2 gconf-editor Enter. 1. In the tree, locate /apps/gnome-system-tools/users. 1. Select the "showall" check-box.

Now try out the user and group manager, and you should see all accounts, including computer service accounts: In the System menu, select Administration and then Users and Groups. Click on the Unlock button, and then on the Manage Groups button, and double click the group you need to manage, e.g. "subversion". You can now select the "www-data" user account to allow Apache access to subversion.

For more information see GConfEditor

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