lgroupmod (1) Linux Manual Page

lgroupmod – Modify an user group

Synopsis

lgroupmod [OPTION]… group

Description

Modifies the user group with name group.

Options

-A, –admin-add=list

Add users in comma-separated list among group‘s administrators.

-a, –admin-remove=list

Remove users in comma-separated list from group‘s administrators. Removing users that are not currently among group‘s administrators silently succeeds.

-g, –gid=gid

Change group‘s group ID to gid.

-i, –interactive

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

-L, –lock

Lock group. This prevents users from using the group password with newgrp(1) to become a member of group.

-M, –member-add=list

Add users in comma-separated list among group‘s members.

-m, –member-remove=list

Remove users in comma-separated list from group‘s members. Removing users that are not currently among group‘s members silently succeeds.

-n, –name=name

Rename group to name.

-P, –plainpassword=password

Set group‘s password to password. Note that the password can be viewed while running lgroupmod using tools such as ps(1).

-p, –password=encrypted

Set group‘s password to the password represented by the hash encrypted. Note that the hash can be viewed while running lgroupmod using tools such as ps(1).

-U, –unlock

Unlock group.

Exit Status

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