Creating a group
Group is a way to organize and administer user accounts in Linux. Groups are used to collectively assign rights and permissions to multiple user accounts.
Getting ready
You will need super user or root privileges to add a group to the Ubuntu server.
How to do it...
Follow these steps to create a group:
Enter the following command to add a new group:
$ sudo addgroup guest
Enter your password to complete
addgroup
with root privileges.
How it works…
Here, we are simply adding a new group guest
to the server. As addgroup
needs root privileges, we need to use sudo
along with the command. After creating a new group, addgroup
displays the GID of the new group.
There's more…
Similar to adduser
, you can use addgroup
in different modes:
Add a normal group when used without any options
Add a system group with the
--system
optionAdd an existing user to an existing group when called with two non-option arguments
Check out the manual page for the addgroup
(man addgroup
) to get more details.
See also
Check out
groupadd
, a low level utility to add new group to the server