gshadow(5)              File Formats and Configuration              gshadow(5)

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       /etc/gshadow contains the shadowed information for group accounts.

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       group name
           It must be a valid group name, which exists on the system.

       encrypted password
           Refer to crypt(3) for details on how this string is interpreted.

           If the password field contains some string that is not a valid
           result of crypt(3), for instance ! or *, users will not be able to
           use a unix password to access the group (but group members do not
           need the password).

           The password is used when a user who is not a member of the group
           wants to gain the permissions of this group (see newgrp(1)).

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       administrators
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       gpasswd(5), group(5), grpck(8), grpconv(8), newgrp(1).

shadow-utils 4.17.4               20/03/2025                        gshadow(5)