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.
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.
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.
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.