Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jul 4 2007 00:11, Karel Zak wrote:
>> newgrp:
>>      add support for /etc/gshadow
>>      check result from getgrnam() more carefully
> 
> Hm, gshadow looks like it is really obsolete. (There is no such file anymore 
> in
> suse releases since a long while. Previously, gshadow was filled with all the
> groups that existed.)
> 

gshadow is used when you have groups which have passwords, which is very
rare in practice but permitted in theory.

        -hpa
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