Managing Groups
NetInfo stores information about groups in its /groups directory. This is different from the /etc/group file, which is consulted only in single-user mode.
To list all of the group IDs (GIDs) and group names for the local domain, invoke nireport with the NetInfo domain (., the local domain), the directory (/groups), and the properties you want to inspect—in this case, gid and name:
% nireport . /groups gid name
-2 nobody
-1 nogroup
0 wheel
1 daemon
2 kmem
3 sys
4 tty
5 operator
6 mail
7 bin
20 staff
25 smmsp
31 guest
45 utmp
66 uucp
68 dialer
69 network
70 www
74 mysql
75 sshd
80 admin
99 unknown
Tip
Although the flat file format is called group (after the /etc/group file), the NetInfo group directory is /groups. If you forget that last s, NetInfo will look for the wrong directory.
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