Section: Maintenance Commands (8)Updated: Jan 11 2005Local indexUp
NAME
lgroupadd - Add an user group
SYNOPSIS
lgroupadd [OPTION]... group
DESCRIPTION
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.