NAME
groupinfo —
displays group
information
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The
groupinfo utility retrieves the group information from the
system. The
groupinfo utility is only available if built
with
EXTENSIONS
. See
group(8) for more information.
The following command line options are recognised:
-
-
- -e
- Return 0 if the group exists, and non-zero if the group
does not exist, on the system. No information is displayed. This form of
the command is useful for scripts which need to check whether a particular
group name or gid is already in use on the system.
-
-
- -v
- Perform any actions in a verbose manner.
The
group argument may either be a group's name, or a gid.
FILES
- /etc/usermgmt.conf
-
EXIT STATUS
The
groupinfo utility exits 0 on success, and >0
if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
passwd(5),
group(8)
HISTORY
The
groupinfo utility first appeared in
NetBSD 1.5. It is based on the
addnerd package by the same author.
AUTHORS
The
groupinfo utility was written by
Alistair
G. Crooks ⟨agc@NetBSD.org⟩.