rmgroup(8)

rmgroup8

Delete a unix group

Usage

rmgroup group

Overview

rmgroup deletes the specified UNIX group from group database. rmgroup will not delete the system groups wheel, daemon, kmem, sys, tty, operator, bin, nogroup, nobody, or groups with gid 0. Do not delete these groups.

Files

/etc/group

group database

Releases

61 releases since OpenBSD 2.1; the text changed 8 times.

  1. 2.1–2.3
  2. 2.4
  3. 2.5
  4. 2.6
  5. 2.7–2.9
  6. 3.0–3.3
  7. 3.4–4.1
  8. 4.2–4.6
  9. 4.7–8.0

History

The rmgroup command appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.