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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

How to Manage Group Administration in Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Fedora

October 23, 2019
How to Manage Group Administration in Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Fedora





 1.  To add new group
#  groupadd   ubuntugrp
#  grep ubuntugrp  /etc/group

2.  Adding a new group with gid 5000.
# groupadd –g 5000 linuxmintgrp
#  grep linuxmintgrp  /etc/group

3.  Modifying group with gid
# groupmod –g 6000 linuxmintgrp
#  grep linuxmintgrp  /etc/group

4. Changing the name of a existing group
#  groupmod –n linuxmint  linuxmintgrp
#  grep  linuxmint  /etc/group
#  groupdel   linuxmint
#  grep linuxmint  /etc/group




5.  To add users as a Secondary users in a Group.
#  useradd  Jack
#  useradd  John
#  useradd  karen
#  gpasswd  -M jack,john,karen  salesgrp
#  grep  salesgrp  /etc/group

6.  Removing user Karen from group salesgrp
# gpasswd –d  karen salesgrp
# grep  salesgrp  /etc/group

7. Adding User Karen to group salesgrp
# gpasswd –a  karen salesgrp
# gpasswd  salesgrp  /etc/group