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| fea681da | 25 | .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:06:03 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |
| b8efb414 | 26 | .TH GROUP 5 2016-10-08 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
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27 | .SH NAME |
| 28 | group \- user group file | |
| 29 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
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30 | The |
| 31 | .I /etc/group | |
| 32 | file is a text file that defines the groups on the system. | |
| 1de5c703 | 33 | There is one entry per line, with the following format: |
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34 | .sp |
| 35 | .RS | |
| 70ccce11 | 36 | group_name:password:GID:user_list |
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37 | .RE |
| 38 | .sp | |
| 91567885 | 39 | The fields are as follows: |
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40 | .TP 12 |
| 41 | .I group_name | |
| fea681da | 42 | the name of the group. |
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43 | .TP |
| 44 | .I password | |
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45 | the (encrypted) group password. |
| 46 | If this field is empty, no password is needed. | |
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47 | .TP |
| 48 | .I GID | |
| 91567885 | 49 | the numeric group ID. |
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50 | .TP |
| 51 | .I user_list | |
| 1de5c703 | 52 | a list of the usernames that are members of this group, separated by commas. |
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53 | .SH FILES |
| 54 | /etc/group | |
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55 | .SH BUGS |
| 56 | As the 4.2BSD | |
| 57 | .BR initgroups (3) | |
| f64cc745 | 58 | man page says: no-one seems to keep |
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59 | .I /etc/group |
| 60 | up-to-date. | |
| 47297adb | 61 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 610ed9b9 | 62 | .BR chgrp (1), |
| 124ba9da | 63 | .BR gpasswd (1), |
| 09897eb6 | 64 | .BR groups (1), |
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65 | .BR login (1), |
| 66 | .BR newgrp (1), | |
| 19126047 | 67 | .BR sg (1), |
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68 | .BR getgrent (3), |
| 69 | .BR getgrnam (3), | |
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70 | .BR gshadow (5), |
| 71 | .BR passwd (5) |