[487b8e6] | 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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[487b8e6] | 3 | <sect2><title>Descriptions</title>
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[6370fa6] | 4 |
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[487b8e6] | 5 | <para>Last checked against version &shadow-contversion;.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 6 |
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[487b8e6] | 7 | <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
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[6370fa6] | 8 |
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[bdc08c1] | 9 | <sect4><title>chage</title>
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[b822811] | 10 | <para>chage changes the number of days between password changes and the date of
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[bdc08c1] | 11 | the last password change.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 12 |
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[bdc08c1] | 13 | <sect4><title>chfn</title>
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[19c068f] | 14 | <para>chfn changes a user's full name and other information
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| 15 | (office room number, office phone number, and
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| 16 | home phone number).</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 17 |
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[bdc08c1] | 18 | <sect4><title>chpasswd</title>
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[53ad30a] | 19 | <para>chpasswd reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard
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| 20 | input and uses this information to update a group of
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[bdc08c1] | 21 | existing users.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 22 |
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[bdc08c1] | 23 | <sect4><title>chsh</title>
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[2c094d6] | 24 | <para>chsh changes the user login shell.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 25 |
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[bdc08c1] | 26 | <sect4><title>dpasswd</title>
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[6a9875d] | 27 | <para>dpasswd adds, deletes and updates dial-up passwords for
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[bdc08c1] | 28 | user login shells.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 29 |
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[bdc08c1] | 30 | <sect4><title>expiry</title>
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[cf24ff1] | 31 | <para>expiry checks and enforces a password expiration policy.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 32 |
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[bdc08c1] | 33 | <sect4><title>faillog</title>
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[6a9875d] | 34 | <para>faillog formats the contents of the failure log, /var/log/faillog, and
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[bdc08c1] | 35 | maintains failure counts and limits.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 36 |
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[bdc08c1] | 37 | <sect4><title>gpasswd</title>
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[335838c] | 38 | <para>gpasswd is used to administer the /etc/group file.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 39 |
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[bdc08c1] | 40 | <sect4><title>groupadd</title>
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[b822811] | 41 | <para>The groupadd command creates a new group account using the values
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[53ad30a] | 42 | specified on the command line and the default values from
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[bdc08c1] | 43 | the system.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 44 |
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[bdc08c1] | 45 | <sect4><title>groupdel</title>
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[b822811] | 46 | <para>The groupdel command modifies the system account files, deleting all
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[bdc08c1] | 47 | entries that refer to group.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 48 |
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[bdc08c1] | 49 | <sect4><title>groupmod</title>
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[b822811] | 50 | <para>The groupmod command modifies the system account files to reflect the
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[bdc08c1] | 51 | changes that are specified on the command line.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 52 |
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[96df9055] | 53 | <sect4><title>groups</title>
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| 54 | <para>groups prints the groups which a user is in.</para></sect4>
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| 55 |
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[bdc08c1] | 56 | <sect4><title>grpck</title>
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[b822811] | 57 | <para>grpck verifies the integrity of the system authentication
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[bdc08c1] | 58 | information.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 59 |
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[bdc08c1] | 60 | <sect4><title>grpconv</title>
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[53ad30a] | 61 | <para>grpunconv converts to shadow group files from normal
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[bdc08c1] | 62 | group files.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 63 |
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[bdc08c1] | 64 | <sect4><title>grpunconv</title>
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[53ad30a] | 65 | <para>grpunconv converts from shadow group files to normal
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[bdc08c1] | 66 | group files.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 67 |
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[bdc08c1] | 68 | <sect4><title>lastlog</title>
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[53ad30a] | 69 | <para>lastlog formats and prints the contents of the last login log,
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[6a9875d] | 70 | /var/log/lastlog. The login-name, port and last login time will be
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[bdc08c1] | 71 | printed.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 72 |
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[bdc08c1] | 73 | <sect4><title>login</title>
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| 74 | <para>login is used to establish a new session with the system.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 75 |
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[bdc08c1] | 76 | <sect4><title>logoutd</title>
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[53ad30a] | 77 | <para>logoutd enforces the login time and port restrictions specified in
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[bdc08c1] | 78 | /etc/porttime.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 79 |
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[bdc08c1] | 80 | <sect4><title>mkpasswd</title>
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[b822811] | 81 | <para>mkpasswd reads a file in the format given by the flags and converts it
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[bdc08c1] | 82 | to the corresponding database file format.</para></sect4>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <sect4><title>newgrp</title>
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| 85 | <para>newgrp is used to change the current group ID during a
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| 86 | login session.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 87 |
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[bdc08c1] | 88 | <sect4><title>newusers</title>
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[b822811] | 89 | <para>newusers reads a file of user name and clear text password pairs and uses
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| 90 | this information to update a group of existing users or to create new
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[bdc08c1] | 91 | users.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 92 |
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[bdc08c1] | 93 | <sect4><title>passwd</title>
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| 94 | <para>passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts.</para></sect4>
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| 95 |
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| 96 | <sect4><title>pwck</title>
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[19c068f] | 97 | <para>pwck verifies the integrity of the password files.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 98 |
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[bdc08c1] | 99 | <sect4><title>pwconv</title>
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[19c068f] | 100 | <para>pwconv converts the normal password file
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| 101 | to a shadowed password file.</para></sect4>
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[bdc08c1] | 102 |
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| 103 | <sect4><title>pwunconv</title>
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[19c068f] | 104 | <para>pwunconv converts a shadowed password file
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| 105 | to a normal password file.</para></sect4>
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[bdc08c1] | 106 |
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| 107 | <sect4><title>sg</title>
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[19c068f] | 108 | <para>sg sets the user's GID to that of the given group, or executes a
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| 109 | given command as member of the given group.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 110 |
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[bdc08c1] | 111 | <sect4><title>useradd</title>
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[6a9875d] | 112 | <para>useradd creates a new user or updates default new user
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[bdc08c1] | 113 | information.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 114 |
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[bdc08c1] | 115 | <sect4><title>userdel</title>
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[b822811] | 116 | <para>userdel modifies the system account files, deleting all entries that
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[bdc08c1] | 117 | refer to a specified login name.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 118 |
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[bdc08c1] | 119 | <sect4><title>usermod</title>
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[b822811] | 120 | <para>usermod modifies the system account files to reflect the changes that
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[bdc08c1] | 121 | are specified on the command line.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 122 |
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[bdc08c1] | 123 | <sect4><title>vipw and vigr</title>
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[b822811] | 124 | <para>vipw and vigr will edit the files /etc/passwd and /etc/group,
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[6370fa6] | 125 | respectively. With the -s flag, they will edit the shadow versions of
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[2c094d6] | 126 | those files, /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow, respectively.</para></sect4>
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[bdc08c1] | 127 |
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| 128 | </sect3>
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| 129 |
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[487b8e6] | 130 | <sect3><title>Library file descriptions</title>
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[bdc08c1] | 131 |
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[96df9055] | 132 | <sect4><title>libmisc</title>
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| 133 | <para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
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| 134 |
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[bdc08c1] | 135 | <sect4><title>libshadow</title>
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| 136 | <para>libshadow provides common functionality for the shadow
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| 137 | programs.</para></sect4>
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| 138 |
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| 139 | </sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 140 |
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| 141 | </sect2>
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