Maintenance 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  speci-
     fied  group  by  modifying  the  appropriate  entry  in  the
     /etc/group file.

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported:

     -ggid Specify the new group ID for the group. This group  ID
           must  be a non-negative decimal integer less than MAX-
           UID, 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  appli-
           cations.)

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

     -nname
           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 char-
           acters 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 (\n).

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 group-
           mod 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.

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Maintenance Commands                                 groupmod(1M)

     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  attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       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.

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