From f34b8ab126405361b899256fd88cb299263e3f52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dima Dorfman Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:55:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Rewrite a paragraph to make it less confusing. --- .../books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml | 18 ++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml index ed88dccc2c..9a983f9b6e 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ @@ -805,13 +805,15 @@ teamtwo:*:1100:jru The argument to the option is a - comma-delimited list of users who are members of the group. If - you've read the preceeding sections, you'll know that the password - file also contains a group for each user; the group in the password - file is automatically added to the group list by the system and will - not (should not) appear in the list of members when using &man.pw.8; - to query group membership. If you wish to find out what groups a - user is part of, you can use the &man.id.1; program as so: + comma-delimited list of users who are members of the group. From the + preceding sections, we know that the password file also contains a + group for each user. The latter (the user) is automatically added to + the group list by the system; the user will not show up as a member + when using the groupshow command to &man.pw.8;, + but will show up when the information is queried via &man.id.1; or + similar tool. In other words, &man.pw.8; only manipulates the + /etc/group file; it will never attempt to read + additionally data from /etc/passwd. Using &man.id.1; to determine group membership