group — user group file
/etc/group is an ASCII file
which defines the groups to which users belong. There is one
entry per line, and each line has the format:
group_name:passwd:GID:user_list
The field descriptions are:
group_namethe name of the group.
passwordthe (encrypted) group password. If this field is empty, no password is needed.
GIDthe numerical group ID.
user_listall the group member's user names, separated by commas.
This page is part of release 2.79 of the Linux man-pages project. A
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http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michaelmoria.de), Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any document formatting or typesetting system, including intermediate and printed output. This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA. Modified Sat Jul 24 17:06:03 1993 by Rik Faith (faithcs.unc.edu) |