lgroupadd(8)

lgroupadd8

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 (500 by default). This information is also passed to the libuser backends.

Exit status

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

Releases

Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

  1. 4.0–7

From libuser 1:0.56.9.dfsg.1-1.2 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.