{"id":8789,"date":"2020-07-19T07:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T11:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=8789"},"modified":"2021-12-04T07:36:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T07:36:15","slug":"delete-group-linux-groupdel-delgroup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/delete-group-linux-groupdel-delgroup\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete Group in Linux Using groupdel and delgroup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Linux operating systems user groups are defined in the <em>\/etc\/group<\/em> file. This is a simple text file that should not be edited directly. What if you want to delete group details? Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/linux\">Linux<\/a> provides command-line tools that will allow you to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prerequisites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This guide makes assumptions that you have a <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/install-apache-mysql-php-ubuntu-20-04-lts\/\">complete Ubuntu server set up<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/add-users-ubuntu-20-04\">users already added to the system<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this guide, we will show you how to use the <em>groupdel<\/em> command and <em>delgroup<\/em> commands to delete all the group information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to delete a group in Linux where <em>groupname<\/em> is the name of the group:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Run the following command to delete a group using the <em>groupdel<\/em> command:<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo groupdel groupname<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\"><li>Run the following command to delete a group using the <em>delgroup<\/em> command:<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo delgroup groupname<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>or<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo delgroup --group groupname<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You can list the existing groups using the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ cat \/etc\/group<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>How about if you want to find out which groups a particular user belongs to. You can retrieve that information using the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ groups username<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You can restrict deleting groups to if the group is a system group. This protects from accidentally deleting non-system groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo delgroup --system --group groupname<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also backup group files before deleting the group using this command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo delgroup --backup --group groupname<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If you just want to remove a user from a group you can use the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo deluser username groupname<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion on Delete Group in Linux<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The above commands work on all major Linux distros such as Arch Linux, <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/centos\">CentOS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/debian\">Debian<\/a>, Fedora, RHEL, and <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/ubuntu\">Ubuntu<\/a> among others. Meanwhile, you can follow this guide on <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/delete-users-ubuntu-20-04\">how to delete users from Linux found here<\/a> or this one about <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/add-users-ubuntu-20-04\">how to add a user in Linux systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Linux operating systems user groups are defined in the \/etc\/group file. This is a simple text file that should not be edited directly. 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