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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Conflicting GID in group and passwd files. Post 302929117 by goldenlight1814 on Thursday 18th of December 2014 02:58:01 AM
Old 12-18-2014
Conflicting GID in group and passwd files.
Hi guys,

I have a question. In the passwd file, user johndoe has a GID of 100 which is the group named users in the group file. But if you check the group file, johndoe is not listed under GID 100, but under GID 33, which is the group named videos. Under what group does johndoe really belong, users or videos? Thanks.
 

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group

GROUP(5)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  GROUP(5)

NAME

       group - user group file

DESCRIPTION

       The /etc/group file is a text file that defines the groups on the system.  There is one entry per line, with the following format:

	   group_name:password:GID:user_list

       The fields are as follows:

       group_name  the name of the group.

       password    the (encrypted) group password.  If this field is empty, no password is needed.

       GID	   the numeric group ID.

       user_list   a list of the usernames that are members of this group, separated 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

       chgrp(1), gpasswd(1), groups(1), login(1), newgrp(1), sg(1), getgrent(3), getgrnam(3), gshadow(5), passwd(5)

COLOPHON

       This  page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the
       latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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