GROUPDEL(8) System Management Commands GROUPDEL(8)NAMEgroupdel - Delete a group
SYNOPSISgroupdel 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 file systems 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 account information
/etc/gshadow
secure group account information
EXIT VALUES
The groupdel command exits with the following values:
0 success
2 invalid command syntax
8 can't remove user's primary group
10 can't update group file
SEE ALSOchfn(1), chsh(1), passwd(1), gpasswd(8), groupadd(8), groupmod(8),
useradd(8), userdel(8), usermod(8)System Management Commands 11/05/2005 GROUPDEL(8)