Linux General Information
Use this page to specify information about a group. The fields on this page might vary, depending on how you have customized the profile page. Required fields are marked with an asterisk (*).
The following are examples of the fields that you might find
on the General Information page.
- Group Name
- Type a unique, user-friendly name for the new group. It is important to specify meaningful group names because, in some cases, users might have only this information to guide a group membership decision for an account. The group name must begin with a lower case letter or an underscore. Characters can only be lower case letters, underscores ( _ ), dashes ( - ), and dollar signs ( $ ). No other characters are permitted.
- Group ID number
- Type number that corresponds to a specific group name. The group ID number is a non-negative decimal integer that uniquely identifies each group to the operating system. You can often substitute the group ID in commands that accept a group name as a value. The system automatically assigns a value, if the field is left empty.
- Allow duplicate GIDs?
- Select this check box to allow the group ID to be duplicated (non-unique).
Click Finish when you are done with this task.