plan9 man page for users

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NAME
       users - file server user list format

DESCRIPTION
       The  permanent  file  servers each maintain a private list of users and groups, in /adm/users by convention.  Each line in the file has the
       format

	      num:name:leader:members

       where num is a decimal integer, name and leader are printable strings excluding the characters and and members is a comma-separated list of
       such  strings.	Such a line defines a user and a group with the given name; the group has a group leader given by leader and group members
       given by the user names in members.  The leader field may be empty, in which case any group member is a group leader.   The  members  field
       may be empty.

       Lines beginning with are ignored.

       The  num in a line is a number used internally by a file server; there should be no duplicate nums in the file.	A negative num is special:
       a user with a negative num cannot attach to the file server.  The file /adm/users itself is owned by user adm, having a negative  num,  and
       write protected to others, so it can only be changed via console commands.

SEE ALSO
       intro(5), stat(5)

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