Groups

Groups offer a way to share files and directories among users.

• The /etc/group file defines the group IDs. Each line in this file represents a group, with fields separated by colons. There are 4 fields:

  1. The group name
  2. The group password (this can be ignored)
  3. The group Id
  4. An optional list of users that belong to the group

• To see the groups you belong to, run groups