How to delete a group from server via commandline – Unix/Linux

What is a group in Linux?

This is a way to organize Linux users. The group membership is administrated by the file “/etc/group” which includes a list of groups and its members. We can also define a user in different groups.

In this case that particular user can access files in different groups where it has access.

What’s the command to delete a particular group?

You can add a group by using the command ‘groupadd‘ and also you can manage the same group by using the ‘groupmems’ command. Here is a command to delete the group from system/server.

Syntax:

# groupdel $groupname

Example:

Creating a group

[root@localhost ~]# groupadd testgrp
[root@localhost ~]# grep testgrp /etc/group
testgrp:x:779:

Deleting a group

[root@localhost ~]# groupdel testgrp
[root@localhost ~]# grep testgrp /etc/group

That’s it 🙂

Related Links :
groupadd , groupmems, groupmod,

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