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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), |
2 | .\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 | |
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fea681da | 25 | .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:06:03 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |
09b8afdc | 26 | .TH GROUP 5 2018-04-30 "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 | .PP |
35 | .in +4n | |
36 | .EX | |
70ccce11 | 37 | group_name:password:GID:user_list |
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38 | .EE |
39 | .in | |
40 | .PP | |
91567885 | 41 | The fields are as follows: |
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42 | .TP 12 |
43 | .I group_name | |
fea681da | 44 | the name of the group. |
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45 | .TP |
46 | .I password | |
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47 | the (encrypted) group password. |
48 | If this field is empty, no password is needed. | |
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49 | .TP |
50 | .I GID | |
91567885 | 51 | the numeric group ID. |
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52 | .TP |
53 | .I user_list | |
1de5c703 | 54 | a list of the usernames that are members of this group, separated by commas. |
2b2581ee | 55 | .SH FILES |
275723f9 | 56 | .I /etc/group |
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57 | .SH BUGS |
58 | As the 4.2BSD | |
59 | .BR initgroups (3) | |
9b13f770 | 60 | man page says: no one seems to keep |
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61 | .I /etc/group |
62 | up-to-date. | |
47297adb | 63 | .SH SEE ALSO |
610ed9b9 | 64 | .BR chgrp (1), |
124ba9da | 65 | .BR gpasswd (1), |
09897eb6 | 66 | .BR groups (1), |
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67 | .BR login (1), |
68 | .BR newgrp (1), | |
19126047 | 69 | .BR sg (1), |
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70 | .BR getgrent (3), |
71 | .BR getgrnam (3), | |
64359438 | 72 | .BR gshadow (5), |
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73 | .BR passwd (5), |
74 | .BR vigr (8) |