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== Adding a New Group to an Ubuntu Linux System ==

== Adding a New Group to a Fedora Linux System ==

All users are members of one or more groups. As an administrator it makes sense to organize users into logical groups. For example all sales people might belong to a ''sales'' group, whilst accounting staff might belong to the ''accounts'' group and so on. New groups are added either using the ''Users settings'' graphical tool, or by using the ''addgroup'' command-line tool. In this section we will look at both methods.

All users are members of one or more groups. As an administrator, it makes sense to organize users into logical groups. For example all sales people might belong to a ''sales'' group, whilst accounting staff might belong to the ''accounts'' group and so on. New groups are added either using the ''Users Manager'' graphical tool, or by using the ''groupadd'' command-line tool. In this section we will look at both methods.