group(8)

group8

Manage group information on the system

Usage

group add [-ov] [-g gid] group

group del [-v] group

group info [-ev] group

group mod [-ov] [-g gid] [-n newname] group

Overview

The group utility acts as a frontend to the groupadd(8), groupmod(8), groupinfo(8), and groupdel(8) commands.

For a full explanation of the options, see the relevant manual page.

Exit status

The group utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

Releases

54 releases since OpenBSD 2.8; the text changed 9 times.

  1. 2.8–2.9
  2. 3.0–3.2
  3. 3.3
  4. 3.4–4.1
  5. 4.2–4.4
  6. 4.5–4.8
  7. 4.9–5.3
  8. 5.4–6.0
  9. 6.1–7.0
  10. 7.1–8.0

History

The group utility first appeared in OpenBSD 2.7.

Authors

The group utility was written by Alistair G. Crooks ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.