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Operating Systems BSD groupadd :: Command not found Post 302176545 by Sergiu-IT on Tuesday 18th of March 2008 01:02:28 PM
Old 03-18-2008
Try to manualy edit the /etc/group file. Open it with an text editor and add a new record to match your needs. Be careful on the group id field (third field) to be unique on that file.
 

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GROUP(5)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  GROUP(5)

NAME
group - user group file DESCRIPTION
/etc/group is a text file which defines the groups on the system. There is one entry per line, with the following format: group_name:password:GID:user_list The field descriptions are: group_name the name of the group. password the (encrypted) group password. If this field is empty, no password is needed. GID the numerical group ID. user_list a list of the usernames that are members of this group, separated by commas. FILES
/etc/group BUGS
As the 4.2BSD initgroups(3) man page says: No-one seems to keep /etc/group up-to-date. SEE ALSO
login(1), newgrp(1), getgrent(3), getgrnam(3), passwd(5) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 2009-10-17 GROUP(5)
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