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Manual Reference Pages  - GROUP (5)

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group - user group file

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Description
Files

/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_name	the name of the group.
password	the (encrypted) group password. If this field is empty, no password is needed.
GID	the numerical group ID.
user_list	all the group member’s user names, separated by commas.

/etc/group

login(1), newgrp(1), passwd(5)

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