Creating and Managing Groups

In the last few lessons we talked about user permissions, group permissions, adding and removing users and so forth. In this session we want to focus on creating a new group as we connect the dots with all the other commands we learned in the last few lessons.

We will use the groupadd command. Let's see it in action as we create the admin group:

groupadd admin

The process to delete this new group is easy as well:

groupdel admin 

and last reminder, the way we add the user demo into the group admin is:

usermod -a -G admin demo

To view all the members of a group type this command:

groups demo