Group Administration

Creating groups accounts

As the root user you can create new groups from the user manager window or the command line with the groupadd command.

Groups are created automatically when a  user account is created.

Group ID numbers from 0 through 499 are assigned to special administrative groups. For example the root group is associated with the GID 0.

Creating groups using groupadd command

In this ex the group named kings is created with the next available group ID.after that the group jokers is created using 525 as group ID.

To change a group later,user groupmod

 In this ex: the group ID of jokers is changed to 350.In the second command the name jokers is changed to jack