Contents The Shadow Password Suite contains the chage, chfn, chpasswd, chsh, dpasswd, expiry, faillog, gpasswd, groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, grpck, grpconv, grpunconv, lastlog, login, newgrp, passwd, sg, su, logoutd, mkpasswd, newusers, pwck, pwconv, pwunconv, useradd, userdel, usermod, vigr and vipw programs. Description chage chage changes the number of days between password changes and the date of the last password change. chfn chfn changes user full name, office number, office extension, and home phone number information for a user's account. chpasswd chpasswd reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard input and uses this information to update a group of existing users. chsh chsh changes the user login shell. dpasswd dpasswd adds, deletes, and updates dial-up passwords for user login shells. expiry Checks and enforces password expiration policy. faillog faillog formats the contents of the failure log,/var/log/faillog, and maintains failure counts and limits. gpasswd gpasswd is used to administer the /etc/group file groupadd The groupadd command creates a new group account using the values specified on the command line and the default values from the system. groupdel The groupdel command modifies the system account files, deleting all entries that refer to group. groupmod The groupmod command modifies the system account files to reflect the changes that are specified on the command line. grpck grpck verifies the integrity of the system authentication information. grpconv grpunconv converts to shadow group files from normal group files. grpunconv grpunconv converts from shadow group files to normal group files. lastlog lastlog formats and prints the contents of the last login log, /var/log/lastlog. The login-name, port, and last login time will be printed. login login is used to establish a new session with the system. newgrp newgrp is used to change the current group ID during a login session. passwd passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts. sg sg executes command as a different group ID. su Change the effective user id and group id to that of a user. This replaces the su programs that's installed from the Shellutils package. logoutd logoutd enforces the login time and port restrictions specified in /etc/porttime. mkpasswd mkpasswd reads a file in the format given by the flags and converts it to the corresponding database file format. newusers newusers reads a file of user name and clear text password pairs and uses this information to update a group of existing users or to create new users. pwck pwck verifies the integrity of the system authentication information. pwconv pwconv converts to shadow passwd files from normal passwd files. pwunconv pwunconv converts from shadow passwd files to normal files. useradd useradd creates a new user or update default new user information. userdel userdel modifies the system account files, deleting all entries that refer to a specified login name. usermod usermod modifies the system account files to reflect the changes that are specified on the command line. vipw and vigr vipw and vigr will edit the files /etc/passwd and /etc/group, respectively. With the -s flag, they will edit the shadow versions of those files, /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow, respectively.