lgroupadd(1)

lgroupadd1

Add an user group

Usage

lgroupadd [OPTION] ... group

Overview

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 (configured as LU_GIDNUMBER in libuser.conf(5)). This information is also passed to the libuser backends.

Exit status

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

Releases

Unchanged in 6 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie).

  1. 8–13

From libuser 1:0.64+git20241106~dfsg-3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.