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NAME¶
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.