plan9-gpl/sys/man/6/users

.TH USERS 6
.SH NAME
users \- file server user list format
.SH DESCRIPTION
The permanent file servers each maintain a private list of users
and groups, in
.B /adm/users
by convention.
Each line in the file has the format
.IP
.IB id : name : leader :\fImembers\fP
.PP
where
.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 id
in a line is an identifier used in the on-disk structures maintained
by a file server; there should be no duplicate
.IR id s
in the file.
In
.IR fossil (4),
.IR id s
are arbitrary text strings, typically the same as
.IR name .
In older Plan 9 file servers,
.IR id s
are small decimal numbers.
In those, 
a negative
.I id
is special: a user with a negative
.I id
cannot attach to the file server.
The file
.B /adm/users
itself is owned by user
.I adm
and write protected to others,
so it can only be changed via console commands.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR intro (5),
.IR stat (5),
.IR fossilcons (8)