GSHADOW(5) File Formats and Conversions GSHADOW(5)NAMEgshadow - 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 passwordconsists 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 validresult 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 bemaintained.FILES
/etc/group
Group account information.
/etc/gshadow
Secure group account information.
SEE ALSOgroup(5), gpasswd(5), newgrp(5).
File Formats and Conversions 06/24/2006 GSHADOW(5)