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/etc/group
/etc/group
stores available
groups
and the
users
that are the groups' members.
File format
Each line consists of four fields which are separated by colons:
Group name
Password
In most cases not used (the value is
x
) and present only for historic reasons
Group ID (GID)
A unique number that uniquely identifies the group
Member list
The members (users) in the group, separated by commas.
See also
A user can be added to a group with
usermod -aG …
The
shell commands
/etc/passwd
and
getent
/usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.txt.gz
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