Group Management in MAC-OS
By default /etc/group is consulted only in single-user mode, so that is not the way to deal with group membership under MAC-OS.
The command line utility dseditgroup is the way to go:
dseditgroup -o create -i 1000 newgroup
will create a new group called newgroup with gid 1000
dseditgroup -o edit -a someuser newgroup
Will add an (existing) user someuser to newgroup
dsedtigroup -o read newgroup
will display the properties of the group newgroup
dseditgroup -o delete newgroup
will delete the group newgroup.
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