GROUPDEL
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
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NAME
groupdel - Delete a group
SYNOPSIS
groupdel group
DESCRIPTION
The groupdel command modifies the system account files, deleting all
entries that refer to group. The named group must exist.
You must manually check all filesystems to insure that no files remain with
the named group as the file group ID.
CAVEATS
You may not remove the primary group of any existing user. You must remove
the user before you remove the group.
FILES
/etc/group - group information
/etc/gshadow - secure group information
EXIT VALUES
- The groupdel command exits with the following values:
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0 - success
2 - invalid command syntax
6 - specified group doesn't exist
8 - can't remove user's primary group
10 - can't update group file
SEE ALSO
chfn(1),
chsh(1),
passwd(1),
groupadd(8),
groupmod(8),
useradd(8),
userdel(8),
usermod(8)
AUTHOR
Julianne Frances Haugh (jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com)
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