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how to add a group in unix

December 12th, 2005 by Lawrence David

in unix, when you’d like to make another group, go with:

sudo groupadd [groupname]

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3 Responses to “how to add a group in unix”

1. on 23 Apr 2008 at 12:16 am   shankar

   i had a 3 groups in my unix server how add anther group in user

2. on 01 Dec 2008 at 10:56 am   Ben

   I had to do “sudo /usr/sbin/groupadd [groupname]” because /usr/sbin wasn’t on my path.

3. on 25 Feb 2011 at 1:04 am   sri

   this answer to shankar, Hi shankar just type groupadd -g 150 group1. 150 is the group ID, group1 is the name of the group.