lgroupmod(1)

lgroupmod1

Modify an user group

Usage

lgroupmod [OPTION] ... group

Overview

Modifies the user group with name group.

Options

-A, --admin-add=list

Add users in comma-separated list among group's administrators.

-a, --admin-remove=list

Remove users in comma-separated list from group's administrators. Removing users that are not currently among group's administrators silently succeeds.

-g, --gid=gid

Change group's group ID to gid.

-i, --interactive

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

-L, --lock

Lock group. This prevents users from using the group password with newgrp(1) to become a member of group.

-M, --member-add=list

Add users in comma-separated list among group's members.

-m, --member-remove=list

Remove users in comma-separated list from group's members. Removing users that are not currently among group's members silently succeeds.

-n, --name=name

Rename group to name.

-P, --plainpassword=password

Set group's password to password. Note that the password can be viewed while running lgroupmod using tools such as ps(1).

-p, --password=encrypted

Set group's password to the password represented by the hash encrypted. Note that the hash can be viewed while running lgroupmod using tools such as ps(1).

-U, --unlock

Unlock group.

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.