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lgroupadd(1)


NAME

   lgroupadd - Add an user group

SYNOPSIS

   lgroupadd [OPTION]... group

DESCRIPTION

   Adds a new user group with name group.

OPTIONS

   -g, --gid=gid
          Use  group  ID  gid  for the newly created group.  A group ID is
          selected automatically if this option is not present.

   -i, --interactive
          Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even  if
          default answers are set up in libuser configuration.

   -r, --reserved
          The  group  is  a  system  group.  Groups that are not marked as
          system groups usually  have  automatically  selected  group  IDs
          above   a   certain   value   (configured   as  LU_GIDNUMBER  in
          libuser.conf(5)).   This  information  is  also  passed  to  the
          libuser backends.

EXIT STATUS

   The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.



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