.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\" %sccs.include.redist.roff%
.\" @(#)group.5 8.2 (Berkeley) %G%
.Nd format of the group permissions file
consists of newline separated
records, one per group, containing four colon
separated fields. These fields are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width password -offset indent -compact
field is the group name used for granting file access to users
who are members of the group.
field is the number associated with the group name.
They should both be unique across the system (and often
across a group of systems) since they control file access.
This field is rarely used
and an asterisk is normally placed in it rather than leaving it blank.
field contains the names of users granted the priviledges of
The member names are separated by commas without spaces or newlines.
A user is automatically in a group if that group was specified
entry and does not need to be added to that group in the
.\" When the system reads the file
.\" the fields are read into the structure
.\" .Bd -literal -offset indent
.\" char *gr_name; /* group name */
.\" char *gr_passwd; /* group password */
.\" int gr_gid; /* group id */
.\" char **gr_mem; /* group members */
.Bl -tag -width /etc/group -compact
command does not change the
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