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dir: purgatorio/man/6/users
.TH USERS 6 .SH NAME users \- kfs file server user list format .SH DESCRIPTION The permanent file server .IR kfs (4) maintains a private list of users and groups, in .B /adm/users by convention. Each line in the file has the format .IP .IB num : name : leader :\fImembers\fP .PP where .I num is a decimal integer, .I name and .I leader are printable strings excluding the characters .LR ? , .LR = , .LR + , .LR - , .LR / , and .LR : , and .I members is a comma-separated list of such strings. Such a line defines a user and a group with the given .IR name ; the group has a group leader given by .I leader and group members given by the user names in .IR members . The .I leader field may be empty, in which case any group member is a group leader. The .I members field may be empty. .PP Lines beginning with .L # are ignored. .PP The .I num in a line is a number used internally by a file server; there should be no duplicate .IR num s in the file. A negative .I num is special: a user with a negative .I num cannot attach to the file server. The file .B /adm/users itself is owned by user .IR adm , having a negative .IR num , and write protected to others, so it can only be changed via console commands. .SH "SEE ALSO" .IR kfs (4), .IR intro (5), .IR stat (5), .IR kfscmd (8)