I was testing the command groupadd in Manjaro xfce and I created some groups with the two users of my computer.
Now I need to delete a group but I also need to conserve the users, which belong to other groups.
I found the command groupdel GROUPNAME
Is there a risk that this command will also delete the users?
Thank you in advance for the answers.
Hi @Jo-ma,
Never done this, but I’d recommend the delgroup command, instead.
From https://www.commandlinux.com/man-page/man8/delgroup.8.html
Remove a group
If deluser is called with the –group option, or delgroup is called, a group will be removed.
Warning: The primary group of an existing user cannot be removed.
If the option –only-if-empty is given, the group won’t be removed if it has any members left.
No - removing a group is not removing a user.
Removing a group may affect what a user is allowed to do or has access to.
Thank you very much for the answer. It was very helpful!
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