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GroupPrincipal represents a group identity used for determining file system object access rights.
Group definitions are implementation-specific, but they typically manage access rights for group members.
The ability for an entity to belong to multiple groups or for groups to be nested is not universally defined.
GroupPrincipal inherits methods for comparison, name retrieval, hash code generation, and string representation from the Principal interface.
public interface
GroupPrincipal
implements
UserPrincipal
A UserPrincipal representing a group identity, used to
determine access rights to objects in a file system. The exact definition of
a group is implementation specific, but typically, it represents an identity
created for administrative purposes so as to determine the access rights for
the members of the group. Whether an entity can be a member of multiple
groups, and whether groups can be nested, are implementation specified and
therefore not specified.
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