Group (database)

group is a name service database used to store group information on Unix-like operating systems. The sources for the group database (and hence the sources for groups on a system) are configured, like other name service databases, in nsswitch.conf.

Seeing available groups on a Unix system

The contents of the group database (and available groups) can be seen with a variety of tools:

Command line

The getent command can be used to fetch group information.

Fetching a list of all available groups

 
getent group

Fetching a specific group

For a specific group called 'users':

getent group users

Python


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gollark: I can't find a setting to disable HTTP in CCEmuX, though.
gollark: Or in the foreground ones with error handling.
gollark: Ironically, PotatOS might work better than Opus in this case, since HTTP is only used in the background processes.
gollark: Generally you'd just expect HTTP stuff to *error*, not to not exist at all.
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