diff --git a/HSH/Helpers/UnixUsers.hs b/HSH/Helpers/UnixUsers.hs
--- a/HSH/Helpers/UnixUsers.hs
+++ b/HSH/Helpers/UnixUsers.hs
@@ -32,10 +32,11 @@
 
 -- wrapper over groupadd
 groupadd :: SysGroup -> IO (Either String ())
-groupadd (SysGroup g) = -- runErrorT $ do
-  -- inPath "groupadd"
-  tryS $ runIO $ render1 [("g",g)] "groupadd $g$"
+groupadd (SysGroup g) = tryS $ runIO $ render1 [("g",g)] "groupadd $g$"
 
+groupdel :: SysGroup -> IO (Either String ())
+groupdel (SysGroup g) = tryS $ runIO $ render1 [("g",g)] "groupdel $g$"
+
 -- a wrapper over the useradd command 
 useradd :: SysUser -> (Maybe SysGroup) -> (Maybe SysShell) -> (Maybe SysHomedir) -> IO (Either String ())
 useradd (SysUser uname) mbG mbSh mbHomedir = do
@@ -145,9 +146,9 @@
       recurse = if recurse' then "-R" else ""
   runIO $ traceIt $ render1 [("op",op)
                              , ("ugo",ugo)
-                             , ("recurse","recurse")
+                             , ("recurse",recurse)
                              , ("perm",perm)
-                             , ("path",path)] "chmod $ugo$$op$$perm$ $path$"
+                             , ("path",path)] "chmod $ugo$$op$$perm$ $recurse$ $path$"
 
 -- could work on getUsersWithoutGroups, getUsersWithoutHomeDir, rmUsersWithoutGroups, etc
 -- should put haddock readable comment that this might be a dangerous thing to do, 
diff --git a/HSHHelpers.cabal b/HSHHelpers.cabal
--- a/HSHHelpers.cabal
+++ b/HSHHelpers.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name: HSHHelpers
-Version: 0.15
+Version: 0.16
 License: GPL
 License-file: gpl.txt
 Description: