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.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de),
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.\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
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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 2016-10-08 "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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The
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.I /etc/group
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file is a text file that defines the groups on the system.
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There is one entry per line, with the following format:
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.PP
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.in +4n
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.EX
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group_name:password:GID:user_list
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.EE
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.in
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.PP
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The fields are as follows:
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.TP 12
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.I group_name
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the name of the group.
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.TP
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.I 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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.TP
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.I GID
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the numeric group ID.
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.TP
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.I user_list
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a list of the usernames that are members of this group, 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 chgrp (1),
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.BR gpasswd (1),
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.BR groups (1),
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.BR login (1),
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.BR newgrp (1),
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.BR sg (1),
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.BR getgrent (3),
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.BR getgrnam (3),
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.BR gshadow (5),
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.BR passwd (5)
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