Surprisingly, it's been tough for me to find the command(s) to do this. Does anyone know how to add a group? Thanks!
Or do something like this:
# create the MySQL group dscl . create /Groups/mysql # give it some group id dscl . create /Groups/mysql gid 296 I've used these to add dba group:
sudo dscl . -create /groups/dba sudo dscl . -append /groups/dba gid 4200 sudo dscl . -append /groups/dba passwd "*" 
ls -l commands, I had to use a variation of the second command, sudo dscl . -append /groups/dba PrimaryGroupID 4200 I got the field name from the output of sudo dscl . -readall /groups. passwd is now Password. "System preferences" -> "Users&Groups" -> "+" (as if you were adding new account) -> Under "New account" select "Group" -> Type in group name -> "Create group"
pulegium's answer is generally preferred, but if you want a command-line way:
sudo dseditgroup -o create mysql (note that creating a group named mysql is probably a bad idea -- there's already a group named _mysql, with mysql as an alias.)
dseditgroup appears to produce the most consistent results a decade later while dscl has undergone inconsistent changes over the same time period. As Gordon Davisson notes, standard Mac OS X 10.6 already has a mysql group, as this command shows:
dscl . -read /Groups/mysql You shouldn’t create your own mysql group, and any attempts to modify it will affect the _mysql group. But to answer your question, the most succinct way to do it would be this single command:
dscl . -create /Groups/mysql gid 296 To add an encrypted password to the group:
dscl . -passwd /Users/mysql ‘my secret’ Note: Andrea Girardi’s method creates a plaintext password, which isn’t so good.
