salt.states.group

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# salt.states.group

## Management of user groups.

The group module is used to create and manage unix group settings, groups can be either present or absent:

    cheese:
      group.present:
        - gid: 7648
        - system: True

`salt.states.group.` `absent`(name)

  Ensure that the named group is absent

  name
    The name of the group to remove

`salt.states.group.` `present`(name, gid=None, system=False)

  Ensure that a group is present

  name
    The name of the group to manage
  gid
    The group id to assign to the named group, if left empty then the next available group id will be assigned

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