Linux manual pages Section 5  

Name

group — user group file

DESCRIPTION

/etc/group is a text file which defines the groups on the system. There is one entry per line, with the following format:

group_name:password:GID:user_list

The field descriptions are:

group_name

the name of the group.

password

the (encrypted) group password. If this field is empty, no password is needed.

GID

the numerical group ID.

user_list

a list of the usernames that are members of this group, separated by commas.

FILES

/etc/group

BUGS

As the 4.2BSD initgroups(3) man page says: No-one seems to keep /etc/group up-to-date.

SEE ALSO

login(1), newgrp(1), getgrent(3), getgrnam(3), passwd(5)

COLOPHON

This page is part of release 3.24 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.


  Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michaelmoria.de),
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