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[subhashni]

what happens if passwd entry created for the user with uid ,gid,where gid is not in group file.
Thanks

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

In the absence of an entry in '/etc/group' to which to map the numeric value, you will simply see the group as its numeric (gid) value.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Paul Sperry]

-rwxr--r-- 1 root sys 124 Dec 5 14:45 mkdepot
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 730 Feb 6 14:25 moronpatches
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 10667 Dec 4 15:20 patchlist
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 3793 Jan 10 09:45 patchmantis
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 4145 Jan 10 09:44 patchmoron
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 3791 Jan 10 09:45 patchstempy
-rwxr--r-- 1 patrick 666 928 Oct 24 15:29 prinlist
-rwxr--r-- 1 patrick 666 96 Jul 21 2003 psterm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 patrick 666 93 Jan 28 08:33 runie
drwxrwxrwx 2 root sys 96 Feb 4 15:11 tmp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root sys 34290 Oct 31 09:46 userinfo

here is a ls of my system
patrick belongs to group id 666
which is not in the /etc/group file
essentially patrick belongs to no group.