1.\" $OpenBSD: rmgroup.8,v 1.13 2009/10/22 12:35:53 sobrado Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>. Berlin. 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 16.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 17.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 18.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 19.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 20.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 21.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 22.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 23.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 24.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 25.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 26.\" 27.\" $From: rmgroup.8,v 1.1 1996/11/04 17:21:11 wosch Exp $ 28.Dd $Mdocdate: October 22 2009 $ 29.Dt RMGROUP 8 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm rmgroup 33.Nd delete a UNIX group 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.Nm rmgroup 36.Ar group 37.Sh DESCRIPTION 38.Nm 39deletes the specified 40.Ux 41.Ar group 42from group database. 43.Nm 44will not delete the system groups wheel, daemon, kmem, sys, tty, 45operator, bin, nogroup, nobody, 46or groups with gid 0. 47Do not delete these groups. 48.Sh FILES 49.Bl -tag -width /etc/groupX -compact 50.It Pa /etc/group 51group database 52.El 53.Sh SEE ALSO 54.Xr group 5 , 55.Xr adduser 8 , 56.Xr rmuser 8 57.Sh HISTORY 58The 59.Nm 60command appeared in 61.Fx 2.2 . 62