groupmod(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      groupmod(1M)

NAME

       groupmod - modify a group definition on the system

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/groupmod [-g gid [-o]] [-n name] group

DESCRIPTION

       The groupmod command modifies the definition of the specified group by modifying the appropriate entry in the /etc/group file.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -g gid	  Specify  the	new  group  ID for the group. This group ID must be a non-negative decimal integer less than MAXUID, as defined in
		  <param.h>. The group ID defaults to the next available (unique) number above 99. (Group IDs from 0-99 are reserved by SunOS  for
		  future applications.)

       -n name	  Specify the new name for the group.  The name argument is a string of no more than eight bytes consisting of characters from the
		  set of lower case alphabetic characters and numeric characters.  A warning message will be written if these restrictions are not
		  met.	 A  future  Solaris release may refuse to accept group fields that do not meet these requirements.  The name argument must
		  contain at least one character and must not include a colon (:) or NEWLINE (
).

       -o	  Allow the gid to be duplicated (non-unique).

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       group	An existing group name to be modified.

EXIT STATUS

       The groupmod utility exits with one of the following values:

       0     Success.

       2     Invalid command syntax. A usage message for the groupmod command is displayed.

       3     An invalid argument was provided to an option.

       4     gid is not unique (when the -o option is not used).

       6     group does not exist.

       9     name already exists as a group name.

       10    Cannot update the /etc/group file.

FILES

       /etc/group    group file

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       users(1B), groupadd(1M), groupdel(1M), logins(1M), useradd(1M), userdel(1M), usermod(1M), group(4), attributes(5)

NOTES

       The groupmod utility only modifies group definitions in the /etc/group file. If a network name service such as NIS or NIS+ is being used to
       supplement  the local /etc/group file with additional entries, groupmod cannot change information supplied by the network name service. The
       groupmod utility will, however, verify the uniqueness of group name and group ID against the external name service.

       groupmod fails if a group entry (a single line in /etc/group) exceeds 2047 characters.

SunOS 5.11							    27 Aug 2008 						      groupmod(1M)