group - Add or remove groups

Author:Stephen Fromm

Synopsis

Manage presence of groups on a host.

Options

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
gid	no			Optional GID to set for the group.
name	yes			Name of the group to manage.
state	no	present	present absent	Whether the group should be present or not on the remote host.
system	no	no	yes no	If yes, indicates that the group created is a system group.

Note

Requires groupadd

Note

Requires groupdel

Note

Requires groupmod

Examples

# Example group command from Ansible Playbooks
- group: name=somegroup state=present