addgroup(7)            Mac OS X Darwin ZSH customization           addgroup(7)



NAME
       addgroup - Add a user group to the Directory Service database


SYNOPSIS
       addgroup group_name gid

       where

       group_name is a one-word name of a new group

       gid  is an (unused) numerical group id integer (Mac OS X starts number-
       ing usergroups consecutively from 501 but any larger  integers  may  be
       used)

       Both  arguments  are compulsory and must be supplied in the order given
       above.


DESCRIPTION
       The addgroup command must be invoked by an admin user.

       Takes a group_name and gid and creates a new group in NetInfo groups



SEE ALSO
       add_user(7),     addgroup(7),     delete_user(7),      delete_group(7),
       remove_user_from_group(7), adduser2group(7)



AUTHOR
       Obtained   and   modified   from  a  bash  shell  script  available  at
       http://www.osxfaq.com/tips/unix-tricks/week91/friday.ws


MAINTAINER
       W. G. Scott wgscott@users.sourceforge.net



Mac OS X                        August 4, 2005                     addgroup(7)