On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:03 PM, patric conant <[email protected]> wrote: > Is /etc/group documented somewhere, specifically, there are several _groups > and I am trying to discover if they are read, I thought I had read that > _groups were ignored, but can't find reference to it one way or another.
Others have addressed how to use 'apropos' or 'man -k'. However, as you've probably seen by now, the group(5) manpage only describes the format of the file, not the significance of any of the particular groups that are included in the stock /etc/group. The short answer is this: the leading underbar is *not* magical. Those groups are just as valid as any other group. That's simply a naming convention used by OpenBSD to make it unlikely that the new groups added in support of stock OS programs/daemons don't conflict with groups defined by a system administrator. Philip Guenther
