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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), |
| 2 | .\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 | |
| fea681da | 3 | .\" |
| e4a74ca8 | 4 | .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later |
| c13182ef | 5 | .\" |
| fea681da | 6 | .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:06:03 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |
| 4c1c5274 | 7 | .TH group 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" |
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8 | .SH NAME |
| 9 | group \- user group file | |
| 10 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
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11 | The |
| 12 | .I /etc/group | |
| 13 | file is a text file that defines the groups on the system. | |
| 1de5c703 | 14 | There is one entry per line, with the following format: |
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15 | .PP |
| 16 | .in +4n | |
| 17 | .EX | |
| 70ccce11 | 18 | group_name:password:GID:user_list |
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19 | .EE |
| 20 | .in | |
| 21 | .PP | |
| 91567885 | 22 | The fields are as follows: |
| 0019177e | 23 | .TP |
| 05624767 | 24 | .I group_name |
| fea681da | 25 | the name of the group. |
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26 | .TP |
| 27 | .I password | |
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28 | the (encrypted) group password. |
| 29 | If this field is empty, no password is needed. | |
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30 | .TP |
| 31 | .I GID | |
| 91567885 | 32 | the numeric group ID. |
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33 | .TP |
| 34 | .I user_list | |
| 1de5c703 | 35 | a list of the usernames that are members of this group, separated by commas. |
| 2b2581ee | 36 | .SH FILES |
| 275723f9 | 37 | .I /etc/group |
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38 | .SH BUGS |
| 39 | As the 4.2BSD | |
| 40 | .BR initgroups (3) | |
| 9b13f770 | 41 | man page says: no one seems to keep |
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42 | .I /etc/group |
| 43 | up-to-date. | |
| 47297adb | 44 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 610ed9b9 | 45 | .BR chgrp (1), |
| 124ba9da | 46 | .BR gpasswd (1), |
| 09897eb6 | 47 | .BR groups (1), |
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48 | .BR login (1), |
| 49 | .BR newgrp (1), | |
| 19126047 | 50 | .BR sg (1), |
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51 | .BR getgrent (3), |
| 52 | .BR getgrnam (3), | |
| 64359438 | 53 | .BR gshadow (5), |
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54 | .BR passwd (5), |
| 55 | .BR vigr (8) |