gshadow man page on CentOS

gshadow man page on CentOS

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GSHADOW(5)		 File Formats and Conversions		    GSHADOW(5)

NAME
       gshadow - shadowed group file

DESCRIPTION
       /etc/gshadow contains the shadowed information for group accounts. It
       contains lines with the following colon-separated fields:

       ·  group name

       ·  encrypted password

       ·  comma-separated list of group administrators

       ·  comma-separated list of group members

The group name and password fields must be filled. The encrypted password
consists of characters from the 64-character alphabet a thru z, A thru Z, 0
thru 9, \. and /. Refer to crypt(3) for details on how this string is
interpreted. If the password field contains some string that is not valid
result of crypt(3), for instance ! or *, the user will not be able to use a
unix password to log in, subject to pam(7).

This information supersedes any password present in /etc/group.

This file must not be readable by regular users if password security is to be
maintained.

FILES
       /etc/group
	  Group account information.

       /etc/gshadow
	  Secure group account information.

SEE ALSO
       group(5), gpasswd(5), newgrp(5).

File Formats and Conversions	  06/24/2006			    GSHADOW(5)

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