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diff --git a/man/man5/group.5 b/man/man5/group.5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2df94017a --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man5/group.5 @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), +.\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:06:03 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.TH group 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +group \- user group file +.SH DESCRIPTION +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: +.P +.in +4n +.EX +group_name:password:GID:user_list +.EE +.in +.P +The fields are as follows: +.TP +.I group_name +the name of the group. +.TP +.I password +the (encrypted) group password. +If this field is empty, no password is needed. +.TP +.I GID +the numeric group ID. +.TP +.I user_list +a list of the usernames that are members of this group, separated by commas. +.SH FILES +.I /etc/group +.SH BUGS +As the 4.2BSD +.BR initgroups (3) +man page says: no one seems to keep +.I /etc/group +up-to-date. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR chgrp (1), +.BR gpasswd (1), +.BR groups (1), +.BR login (1), +.BR newgrp (1), +.BR sg (1), +.BR getgrent (3), +.BR getgrnam (3), +.BR gshadow (5), +.BR passwd (5), +.BR vigr (8) |