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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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groupadd — Add (Create) a New Group Definition on a System

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/groupadd [-g gid [-o]] group
					

Description

Use the groupadd command to create a new group definition on the system by adding the appropriate entry to the /etc/group file.

Note

groupadd adds a group definition only to the local system. If a network nameservice such as NIS or NIS+ is being used to supplement the local /etc/group file with additional entries, groupadd cannot change information supplied by the network nameservice. However, groupadd does verify the uniqueness of group name and group ID against the external nameservice.

Options

-g gid Assign the group ID gid for the new group. This group ID must be a nonnegative decimal integer below MAXUID as defined in ...
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