From 1de5c703582e3b9ae6282aa396c37677135e778b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:52:26 +1300 Subject: [PATCH] group.5: Various minor rewordings and improvements Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man5/group.5 | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/man5/group.5 b/man5/group.5 index e33901cd7..727494da9 100644 --- a/man5/group.5 +++ b/man5/group.5 @@ -22,13 +22,12 @@ .\" USA. .\" .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:06:03 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) -.TH GROUP 5 1992-12-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH GROUP 5 2009-02-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME group \- user group file .SH DESCRIPTION -\fI/etc/group\fP is an ASCII file which defines the groups to which users -belong. -There is one entry per line, and each line has the format: +\fI/etc/group\fP is a text file which defines the groups on the system. +There is one entry per line, with the following format: .sp .RS group_name:passwd:GID:user_list @@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ If this field is empty, no password is needed. .IP GID the numerical group ID. .IP user_list -all the group member's usernames, separated by commas. +a list of the usernames that are members of this group, separated by commas. .SH FILES /etc/group .SH BUGS