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diff --git a/man5/group.5 b/man5/group.5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1356ddb12 --- /dev/null +++ b/man5/group.5 @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.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 (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.TH GROUP 5 1992-12-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +group \- user group file +.SH DESCRIPTION +\fB/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: +.sp +.RS +group_name:passwd:GID:user_list +.RE +.sp +The field descriptions are: +.IP group_name +the name of the group. +.IP password +the (encrypted) group password. If this field is +empty, no password is needed. +.IP GID +the numerical group ID. +.IP user_list +all the group member's user names, separated by commas. +.SH BUGS +As the 4.2BSD +.BR initgroups (3) +man page says: Noone seems to keep /etc/group up-to-date. +.SH FILES +/etc/group +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR login (1), +.BR newgrp (1), +.BR passwd (5) |