The software described in this documentation is either in Extended Support or Sustaining Support. See https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/enterprise-linux-support-policies-069172.pdf for more information.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.

24.6 Creating Groups

To create a group by using the groupadd command:

# groupadd [options] groupname

Typically, you might want to use the -g option to specify the group ID (GID), for example:

# groupadd -g 1000 devgrp

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