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GROUP
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (5) Updated: 2016-10-08 Index
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NAME
group - user group file
DESCRIPTION
The
/etc/group
file is a text file that defines the groups on the system.
There is one entry per line, with the following format:
group_name:password:GID:user_list
The fields are as follows:
- group_name
-
the name of the group.
- password
-
the (encrypted) group password.
If this field is empty, no password is needed.
- GID
-
the numeric 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
chgrp(1),
gpasswd(1),
groups(1),
login(1),
newgrp(1),
sg(1),
getgrent(3),
getgrnam(3),
gshadow(5),
passwd(5)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 4.13 of the Linux
man-pages
project.
A description of the project,
information about reporting bugs,
and the latest version of this page,
can be found at
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Index
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