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1<sect2><title>Contents of shadow-&shadow-contversion;</title>
2
3<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
4<para>chage, chfn, chpasswd, chsh, dpasswd, expiry, faillog, gpasswd,
5groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, grpck, grpconv, grpunconv, lastlog, login,
6logoutd, mkpasswd, newgrp, newusers, passwd, pwck, pwconv, pwunconv, sg
7(link to newgrp), su, useradd, userdel, usermod, vigr (link to vipw) and
8vipw</para></sect3>
9
10<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
11
12<sect4><title>chage</title>
13<para>chage changes the number of days between password changes and the date of
14the last password change.</para></sect4>
15
16<sect4><title>chfn</title>
17<para>chfn changes user full name, office number, office extension, and home
18phone number information for a user's account.</para></sect4>
19
20<sect4><title>chpasswd</title>
21<para>chpasswd reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard
22input and uses this information to update a group of
23existing users.</para></sect4>
24
25<sect4><title>chsh</title>
26<para>chsh changes the user login shell.</para></sect4>
27
28<sect4><title>dpasswd</title>
29<para>dpasswd adds, deletes, and updates dial-up passwords for
30user login shells.</para></sect4>
31
32<sect4><title>expiry</title>
33<para>Checks and enforces password expiration policy.</para></sect4>
34
35<sect4><title>faillog</title>
36<para>faillog formats the contents of the failure log,/var/log/faillog, and
37maintains failure counts and limits.</para></sect4>
38
39<sect4><title>gpasswd</title>
40<para>gpasswd is used to administer the /etc/group file</para></sect4>
41
42<sect4><title>groupadd</title>
43<para>The groupadd command creates a new group account using the values
44specified on the command line and the default values from
45the system.</para></sect4>
46
47<sect4><title>groupdel</title>
48<para>The groupdel command modifies the system account files, deleting all
49entries that refer to group.</para></sect4>
50
51<sect4><title>groupmod</title>
52<para>The groupmod command modifies the system account files to reflect the
53changes that are specified on the command line.</para></sect4>
54
55<sect4><title>grpck</title>
56<para>grpck verifies the integrity of the system authentication
57information.</para></sect4>
58
59<sect4><title>grpconv</title>
60<para>grpunconv converts to shadow group files from normal
61group files.</para></sect4>
62
63<sect4><title>grpunconv</title>
64<para>grpunconv converts from shadow group files to normal
65group files.</para></sect4>
66
67<sect4><title>lastlog</title>
68<para>lastlog formats and prints the contents of the last login log,
69/var/log/lastlog. The login-name, port, and last login time will be
70printed.</para></sect4>
71
72<sect4><title>login</title>
73<para>login is used to establish a new session with the system.</para></sect4>
74
75<sect4><title>logoutd</title>
76<para>logoutd enforces the login time and port restrictions specified in
77/etc/porttime.</para></sect4>
78
79<sect4><title>mkpasswd</title>
80<para>mkpasswd reads a file in the format given by the flags and converts it
81to the corresponding database file format.</para></sect4>
82
83<sect4><title>newgrp</title>
84<para>newgrp is used to change the current group ID during a
85login session.</para></sect4>
86
87<sect4><title>newusers</title>
88<para>newusers reads a file of user name and clear text password pairs and uses
89this information to update a group of existing users or to create new
90users.</para></sect4>
91
92<sect4><title>passwd</title>
93<para>passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts.</para></sect4>
94
95<sect4><title>pwck</title>
96<para>pwck verifies the integrity of the system authentication
97information.</para></sect4>
98
99<sect4><title>pwconv</title>
100<para>pwconv converts to shadow passwd files from normal passwd
101files.</para></sect4>
102
103<sect4><title>pwunconv</title>
104<para>pwunconv converts from shadow passwd files to normal files.</para></sect4>
105
106<sect4><title>sg</title>
107<para>sg executes command as a different group ID.</para></sect4>
108
109<sect4><title>su</title>
110<para>Change the effective user id and group id to that of a user. This
111replaces the su programs that's installed from the
112Shellutils package.</para></sect4>
113
114<sect4><title>useradd</title>
115<para>useradd creates a new user or update default new user
116information.</para></sect4>
117
118<sect4><title>userdel</title>
119<para>userdel modifies the system account files, deleting all entries that
120refer to a specified login name.</para></sect4>
121
122<sect4><title>usermod</title>
123<para>usermod modifies the system account files to reflect the changes that
124are specified on the command line.</para></sect4>
125
126<sect4><title>vipw and vigr</title>
127<para>vipw and vigr will edit the files /etc/passwd and /etc/group,
128respectively. With the -s flag, they will edit the shadow versions of
129those files, /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow, respectively.</para></sect4>
130
131</sect3>
132
133<sect3><title>Library Files</title>
134<para>libshadow.[a,so]</para></sect3>
135
136<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
137
138<sect4><title>libshadow</title>
139<para>libshadow provides common functionality for the shadow
140programs.</para></sect4>
141
142</sect3>
143
144</sect2>
145
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