Creating Groups

Use groups to quickly assign the same permissions to several users.

To create a group, use the groupadd command.

sudo groupadd [options] groupname

Typically, you might want to use the -g option to specify the group ID (GID). This helps to maintain a consistent GID across systems. For example, to use 1000 as the GID for the devgrp group:

sudo groupadd -g 1000 devgrp

For more information, see the groupadd(8) manual page.