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.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
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.\" USA.
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.\"
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:06:03 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.TH GROUP 5 1992-12-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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group \- user group file
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fI/etc/group\fP is an ASCII file which defines the groups to which users
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belong.
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There is one entry per line, and each line has the format:
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.sp
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.RS
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group_name:passwd:GID:user_list
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.RE
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.sp
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The field descriptions are:
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.IP group_name
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the name of the group.
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.IP password
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the (encrypted) group password.
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If this field is empty, no password is needed.
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.IP GID
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the numerical group ID.
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.IP user_list
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all the group member's usernames, separated by commas.
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.SH FILES
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/etc/group
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.SH BUGS
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As the 4.2BSD
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.BR initgroups (3)
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man page says: No-one seems to keep
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.I /etc/group
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up-to-date.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR login (1),
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.BR newgrp (1),
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.BR getgrent (3),
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.BR getgrnam (3),
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.BR passwd (5)
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