Adding A New Group - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 System Administration Manual

Chapter 32. Users and Groups
Figure 32.3. User Properties
The User Properties window is divided into multiple tabbed pages:
• User Data — Shows the basic user information configured when you added the user. Use this tab to
change the user's full name, password, home directory, or login shell.
• Account Info —
Select Enable account expiration if you want the account to expire on a certain date. Enter the
date in the provided fields.
Select Local password is locked to lock the user account and prevent the user from logging into
the system.
• Password Info — Displays the date that the user's password last changed. To force the user to
change passwords after a certain number of days, select Enable password expiration and enter
a desired value in the Days before change required: field. The number of days before the user's
password expires, the number of days before the user is warned to change passwords, and days
before the account becomes inactive can also be changed.
• Groups — Allows you to view and configure the Primary Group of the user, as well as other groups
that you want the user to be a member of.

32.1.3. Adding a New Group

To add a new user group, click the Add Group button. A window similar to
appears. Type the name of the new group to create. To specify a group ID for the new group, select
Specify group ID manually and select the GID. Note that Red Hat Enterprise Linux also reserves
group IDs lower than 500 for system groups.
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Figure 32.4, "New Group"