GROUP.ADJUNCT(5)

NAME
group.adjunct - group security data file

SYNOPSIS
/etc/security/group.adjunct

DESCRIPTION

The group.adjunct file contains the following information for each group:

    groupname:password

groupname
    The group's name in the system; it must be unique.

password
    The encrypted password, formerly field two of the /etc/group file.

The group.adjunct file is in ASCII. Fields are separated by a colon, and each group is separated from the next by a NEWLINE.

A group.adjunct file can have a line beginning with a `+' (plus sign), which means to incorporate entries from the Network Information Service (NIS). There are two styles of `+' entries: all by itself, `+' means to insert the entire contents of the group.adjunct NIS file at that point; +name means to insert the entry (if any) for name from the NIS service at that point. If a `+' entry has a non-null password, the contents of that field will override what is contained in the NIS service.

FILES
/etc/group

SEE ALSO
crypt(3), getgraent(3), getgrent(3V), group(5)

NOTES

The Network Information Service (NIS) was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). The functionality of the two remains the same; only the name has changed.