group

DESCRIPTION
       /etc/group  is  a  text  file  which  defines the groups on the system.
       There is one entry per line, with the following 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
              a  list  of  the usernames that are members of this group, sepa-
              rated by commas.

FILES
       /etc/group

BUGS
       As the 4.2BSD  initgroups(3)  man  page  says:  No-one  seems  to  keep
       /etc/group up-to-date.

SEE ALSO
       login(1), newgrp(1), getgrent(3), getgrnam(3), passwd(5)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.23 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



Linux                             2009-02-23                          GROUP(5)