lgroupadd

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Jan 11 2005
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NAME

lgroupadd - Add an user group

 

SYNOPSIS

lgroupadd [OPTION]... group

 

DESCRIPTION

Adds a new user group with name group.

 

OPTIONS

-g, --gid=gid
Use group ID gid for the newly created group. A group ID is selected automatically if this option is not present.

-i, --interactive
Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration.

-r, --reserved
The group is a system group. Groups that are not marked as system groups usually have automatically selected group IDs above a certain value (500 by default). This information is also passed to the libuser backends.

 

EXIT STATUS

The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.