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[Bug 190] Put descs in alphabetical order

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    22<title>Contents</title>
    33
    4 <para>The Shadow Password Suite contains the chage, chfn, chsh, expiry,
    5 faillog, gpasswd, lastlog, login, newgrp, passwd, sg, su, chpasswd,
    6 dpasswd, groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, grpck, grpconv, grpunconv, logoutd,
    7 mkpasswd, newusers, pwck, pwconv, pwunconv, useradd, userdel, usermod
    8 and vipw programs.</para>
     4<para>The Shadow Password Suite contains the chage, chfn, chpasswd, chsh,
     5dpasswd, expiry, faillog, gpasswd, groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, grpck,
     6grpconv, grpunconv, lastlog, login, newgrp, passwd, sg, su, logoutd,
     7mkpasswd, newusers, pwck, pwconv, pwunconv, useradd,
     8userdel, usermod and vipw programs.</para>
    99
    1010</sect2>
    … …  
    1313
    1414<sect3><title>chage</title>
    15 
    1615<para>chage changes the number of days between password changes and the date of
    17 the last password change.</para>
    18 
    19 </sect3>
     16the last password change.</para></sect3>
    2017
    2118<sect3><title>chfn</title>
     19<para>chfn changes user full name, office number, office extension, and home
     20phone number information for a user's account.</para></sect3>
    2221
    23 <para>chfn changes user full name, office number, office extension, and home
    24 phone number information for a user's account.</para>
    25 
    26 </sect3>
     22<sect3><title>chpasswd</title>
     23<para>chpasswd reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard
     24input and uses this information to update a group of
     25existing users.</para></sect3>
    2726
    2827<sect3><title>chsh</title>
     28<para>chsh  changes the user login shell.</para></sect3>
    2929
    30 <para>chsh  changes the user login shell.</para>
    31 
    32 </sect3>
     30<sect3><title>dpasswd</title>
     31<para>dpasswd adds, deletes, and updates dial-up passwords for
     32user login shells.</para></sect3>
    3333
    3434<sect3><title>expiry</title>
    35 
    36 <para>Checks and enforces password expiration policy.</para>
    37 
    38 </sect3>
     35<para>Checks and enforces password expiration policy.</para></sect3>
    3936
    4037<sect3><title>faillog</title>
    41 
    4238<para>faillog formats the contents of the failure log,/var/log/faillog, and
    43 maintains failure counts and limits.</para>
    44 
    45 </sect3>
     39maintains failure counts and limits.</para></sect3>
    4640
    4741<sect3><title>gpasswd</title>
     42<para>gpasswd is used to administer the /etc/group file</para></sect3>
    4843
    49 <para>gpasswd is used to administer the /etc/group file</para>
     44<sect3><title>groupadd</title>
     45<para>The groupadd command creates a new group account using the values
     46specified on the command line and the default values from
     47the system.</para></sect3>
    5048
    51 </sect3>
     49<sect3><title>groupdel</title>
     50<para>The groupdel command modifies the system account files, deleting all
     51entries that refer to group.</para></sect3>
     52
     53<sect3><title>groupmod</title>
     54<para>The groupmod command modifies the system account files to reflect the
     55changes that are specified on the command line.</para></sect3>
     56
     57<sect3><title>grpck</title>
     58<para>grpck verifies the integrity of the system authentication
     59information.</para></sect3>
     60
     61<sect3><title>grpconv</title>
     62<para>grpunconv converts to shadow group files from normal
     63group files.</para></sect3>
     64
     65<sect3><title>grpunconv</title>
     66<para>grpunconv converts from shadow group files to normal
     67group files.</para></sect3>
    5268
    5369<sect3><title>lastlog</title>
    54 
    5570<para>lastlog formats and prints the contents of the last login log,
    5671/var/log/lastlog. The login-name, port, and last login time will be
    57 printed.</para>
    58 
    59 </sect3>
     72printed.</para></sect3>
    6073
    6174<sect3><title>login</title>
    62 
    63 <para>login is used to establish a new session with the system.</para>
    64 
    65 </sect3>
     75<para>login is used to establish a new session with the system.</para></sect3>
    6676
    6777<sect3><title>newgrp</title>
    68 
    6978<para>newgrp is used to change the current group ID during a
    70 login session.</para>
    71 
    72 </sect3>
     79login session.</para></sect3>
    7380
    7481<sect3><title>passwd</title>
    75 
    76 <para>passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts.</para>
    77 
    78 </sect3>
     82<para>passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts.</para></sect3>
    7983
    8084<sect3><title>sg</title>
    81 
    82 <para>sg executes command as a different group ID.</para>
    83 
    84 </sect3>
     85<para>sg executes command as a different group ID.</para></sect3>
    8586
    8687<sect3><title>su</title>
    87 
    8888<para>Change the effective user id and group id to that of a user. This
    89 replaces the su programs that's installed from the Shellutils package.</para>
    90 
    91 </sect3>
    92 
    93 <sect3><title>chpasswd</title>
    94 
    95 <para>chpasswd reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard
    96 input and uses this information to update a group of existing users.</para>
    97 
    98 </sect3>
    99 
    100 <sect3><title>dpasswd</title>
    101 
    102 <para>dpasswd adds, deletes, and updates dial-up passwords for
    103 user login shells.</para>
    104 
    105 </sect3>
    106 
    107 <sect3><title>groupadd</title>
    108 
    109 <para>The groupadd command creates a new group account using the values
    110 specified on the command line and the default values from the system.</para>
    111 
    112 </sect3>
    113 
    114 <sect3><title>groupdel</title>
    115 
    116 <para>The groupdel command modifies the system account files, deleting all
    117 entries that refer to group.</para>
    118 
    119 </sect3>
    120 
    121 <sect3><title>groupmod</title>
    122 
    123 <para>The groupmod command modifies the system account files to reflect the
    124 changes that are specified on the command line.</para>
    125 
    126 </sect3>
    127 
    128 <sect3><title>grpck</title>
    129 
    130 <para>grpck verifies the integrity of the system authentication
    131 information.</para>
    132 
    133 </sect3>
    134 
    135 <sect3><title>grpconv</title>
    136 
    137 <para>grpunconv converts to shadow group files from normal group files.</para>
    138 
    139 </sect3>
    140 
    141 <sect3><title>grpunconv</title>
    142 
    143 <para>grpunconv converts from shadow group files to normal group files.</para>
    144 
    145 </sect3>
     89replaces the su programs that's installed from the
     90Shellutils package.</para></sect3>
    14691
    14792<sect3><title>logoutd</title>
    148 
    14993<para>logoutd enforces the login time and port restrictions specified in
    150 /etc/porttime.</para>
    151 
    152 </sect3>
     94/etc/porttime.</para></sect3>
    15395
    15496<sect3><title>mkpasswd</title>
    155 
    15697<para>mkpasswd reads a file in the format given by the flags and converts it
    157 to the corresponding database file format.</para>
    158 
    159 </sect3>
     98to the corresponding database file format.</para></sect3>
    16099
    161100<sect3><title>newusers</title>
    162 
    163101<para>newusers reads a file of user name and clear text password pairs and uses
    164102this information to update a group of existing users or to create new
    165 users.</para>
    166 
    167 </sect3>
     103users.</para></sect3>
    168104
    169105<sect3><title>pwck</title>
    170 
    171106<para>pwck verifies the integrity of the system authentication
    172 information.</para>
    173 
    174 </sect3>
     107information.</para></sect3>
    175108
    176109<sect3><title>pwconv</title>
    177 
    178110<para>pwconv converts to shadow passwd files from normal passwd
    179 files.</para>
    180 
    181 </sect3>
     111files.</para></sect3>
    182112
    183113<sect3><title>pwunconv</title>
    184 
    185 <para>pwunconv converts from shadow passwd files to normal files.</para>
    186 
    187 </sect3>
     114<para>pwunconv converts from shadow passwd files to normal files.</para></sect3>
    188115
    189116<sect3><title>useradd</title>
    190 
    191 <para>useradd creates a new user or update default new user information.</para>
    192 
    193 </sect3>
     117<para>useradd creates a new user or update default new user
     118information.</para></sect3>
    194119
    195120<sect3><title>userdel</title>
    196 
    197121<para>userdel modifies the system account files, deleting all entries that
    198 refer to a specified login name.</para>
    199 
    200 </sect3>
     122refer to a specified login name.</para></sect3>
    201123
    202124<sect3><title>usermod</title>
    203 
    204125<para>usermod modifies the system account files to reflect the changes that
    205 are specified on the command line.</para>
    206 
    207 </sect3>
     126are specified on the command line.</para></sect3>
    208127
    209128<sect3><title>vipw and vigr</title>
    210 
    211129<para>vipw and vigr will edit the files /etc/passwd and /etc/group,
    212130respectively. With the -s flag, they will edit the shadow versions of
    213 those files, /etc/shadow  and /etc/gshadow,  respectively.</para>
    214 
    215 </sect3>
     131those files, /etc/shadow  and /etc/gshadow,  respectively.</para></sect3>
    216132
    217133</sect2>
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