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Re: Creating a new group



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From: Tommi Komulainen <Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 21:13:15 +0200

>On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:39:22PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
>> also sprach Tom Schuetz (on Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:29:26AM -0800):
>> > How do I create a new group?
>> 
>> man newgrp
>> /usr/bin/newgrp <groupname>
>
>Uh oh, you'd better follow your own advice and read the manpage.
>
>To actually create a group, one uses addgroup.
>
>man addgroup
>/usr/sbin/addgroup <groupname>
>
Thank you! I *knew* it wasn't newgroup, because that just switches groups- I would never disturb y'all deb gods without having checked the manual first. Thanks to MaD dUCK, too.

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>Tommi Komulainen                                 Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi
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