Name
groupadd
Synopsis
groupadd [options
]group
System administration command. Create new group account group. Options -f and -r are added by RedHat and may not be available on all distributions.
Options
- -f
Exit with error if group being added already exists. If a gid requested with -g already exists and the -o option has not been specified, assign a different gid as if -g had not been specified.
- -g gid
Assign numerical group ID. (By default, the first available number above 500 is used.) The value must be unique unless the -o option is used.
- -o
Accept a nonunique gid with the -g option.
- -r
Add a system account. Assign the first available number lower than 499.
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