Solaris™ Operating Environment Boot Camp

Group File

This file is named /etc/group and is similar to the password and shadow files; in other words, it is an ASCII file consisting of colon-separated strings. It contains definitions for all the groups that are used on the system and, by default, looks like the one shown here:

hydrogen# cat /etc/group
root::0:root
other::1:
bin::2:root,bin,daemon
sys::3:root,bin,sys,adm
adm::4:root,adm,daemon
uucp::5:root,uucp
mail::6:root
tty::7:root,tty,adm
lp::8:root,lp,adm
nuucp::9:root,nuucp
staff::10:
daemon::12:root,daemon
sysadmin::14:
nobody::60001:
noaccess::60002:
nogroup::65534:
hydrogen#

The field entries are as follows.

Field 1: Group Name

This is the actual group name.

Field 2: Group Password

This field is largely historical and now rarely ...