summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/man5/group.5
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000
commit3d08cd331c1adcf0d917392f7e527b3f00511748 (patch)
tree312f0d1e1632f48862f044b8bb87e602dcffb5f9 /man5/group.5
parentAdding debian version 6.7-2. (diff)
downloadmanpages-3d08cd331c1adcf0d917392f7e527b3f00511748.tar.xz
manpages-3d08cd331c1adcf0d917392f7e527b3f00511748.zip
Merging upstream version 6.8.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man5/group.5')
-rw-r--r--man5/group.555
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 55 deletions
diff --git a/man5/group.5 b/man5/group.5
deleted file mode 100644
index 233f307..0000000
--- a/man5/group.5
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-.\" 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 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
-.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)