Group Management

Groups are named collections of Artifactory users. Assigning permissions to a group — rather than to individual users — simplifies access control: add a user to a group and they immediately inherit all permissions that group holds.

The JFrog CLI provides three commands for managing groups:

Command	Alias	What it does
`jf rt group-create`	`rt gc`	Create a new group
`jf rt group-add-users`	`rt gau`	Add one or more existing users to a group
`jf rt group-delete`	`rt gdel`	Permanently delete a group

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Note
The JFrog CLI does not provide a group-list or group-get command. To view existing groups, use the Artifactory UI (Administration → Identity and Access → Groups) or the Artifactory REST API (GET /access/api/v2/groups).

Prerequisites

All group management commands require:

JFrog CLI installed and a server configured — run jf config show to verify.
Admin privileges on the Artifactory instance.

Typical workflow

To create a group, add members, and apply a permission target:

Create the group:

jf rt group-create backend-team

Add existing users to the group:

jf rt group-add-users backend-team alice,bob

Generate a permission target template interactively, then create it on the server:

jf rt ptt ./backend-permissions.json
jf rt ptc ./backend-permissions.json

After completing these steps, every member of backend-team inherits the permissions defined in the target. See Permission Targets for details on the JSON schema.