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group.5: Various minor rewordings 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" USA.
.\"
.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:06:03 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.TH GROUP 5 2009-10-17 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH GROUP 5 2010-10-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
group \- user group file
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fI/etc/group\fP is a text file which defines the groups on the system.
The
.I /etc/group
file is a text file that defines the groups on the system.
There is one entry per line, with the following format:
.sp
.RS
group_name:password:GID:user_list
.RE
.sp
The field descriptions are:
The fields are as follows:
.TP 12
.I group_name
the name of the group.
@ -43,7 +45,7 @@ the (encrypted) group password.
If this field is empty, no password is needed.
.TP
.I GID
the numerical group ID.
the numeric group ID.
.TP
.I user_list
a list of the usernames that are members of this group, separated by commas.