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274 lines
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<sect2>
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<title>Contents</title>
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<para>
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The Shadow Password Suite contains the chage, chfn, chsh, expiry,
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faillog, gpasswd, lastlog, login, newgrp, passwd, sg, su, chpasswd,
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dpasswd, groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, grpck, grpconv, grpunconv, logoutd,
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mkpasswd, newusers, pwck, pwconv, pwunconv, useradd, userdel, usermod
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and vipw programs.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>Description</title>
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<sect3><title>chage</title>
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<para>
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chage changes the number of days between password changes and the date of
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the last password change.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>chfn</title>
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<para>
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chfn changes user full name, office number, office extension, and home
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phone number information for a user's account.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>chsh</title>
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<para>
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chsh changes the user login shell.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>expiry</title>
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<para>
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Checks and enforces password expiration policy.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>faillog</title>
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<para>
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faillog formats the contents of the failure log,/var/log/faillog, and
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maintains failure counts and limits.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>gpasswd</title>
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<para>
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gpasswd is used to administer the /etc/group file
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>lastlog</title>
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<para>
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lastlog formats and prints the contents of the last login log,
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/var/log/lastlog. The login-name, port, and last login time will be printed.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>login</title>
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<para>
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login is used to establish a new session with the system.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>newgrp</title>
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<para>
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newgrp is used to change the current group ID during a login session.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>passwd</title>
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<para>
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passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>sg</title>
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<para>
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sg executes command as a different group ID.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>su</title>
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<para>
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Change the effective user id and group id to that of a user. This
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replaces the su programs that's installed from the Shellutils package.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>chpasswd</title>
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<para>
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chpasswd reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard
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input and uses this information to update a group of existing users.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>dpasswd</title>
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<para>
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dpasswd adds, deletes, and updates dial-up passwords for user login shells.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>groupadd</title>
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<para>
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The groupadd command creates a new group account using the values
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specified on the command line and the default values from the system.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>groupdel</title>
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<para>
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The groupdel command modifies the system account files, deleting all
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entries that refer to group.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>groupmod</title>
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<para>
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The groupmod command modifies the system account files to reflect the
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changes that are specified on the command line.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>grpck</title>
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<para>
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grpck verifies the integrity of the system authentication information.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>grpconv</title>
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<para>
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grpunconv converts to shadow group files from normal group files.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>grpunconv</title>
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<para>
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grpunconv converts from shadow group files to normal group files.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>logoutd</title>
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<para>
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logoutd enforces the login time and port restrictions specified in
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/etc/porttime.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>mkpasswd</title>
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<para>
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mkpasswd reads a file in the format given by the flags and converts it
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to the corresponding database file format.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>newusers</title>
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<para>
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newusers reads a file of user name and clear text password pairs and uses
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this information to update a group of existing users or to create new users.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>pwck</title>
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<para>
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pwck verifies the integrity of the system authentication information.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>pwconv</title>
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<para>
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pwconv converts to shadow passwd files from normal passwd files.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>pwunconv</title>
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<para>
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pwunconv converts from shadow passwd files to normal files.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>useradd</title>
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<para>
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useradd creates a new user or update default new user information.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>userdel</title>
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<para>
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userdel modifies the system account files, deleting all entries that
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refer to a specified login name.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>usermod</title>
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<para>
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usermod modifies the system account files to reflect the changes that
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are specified on the command line.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>vipw and vigr</title>
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<para>
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vipw and vigr will edit the files /etc/passwd and /etc/group,
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respectively. With the -s flag, they will edit the shadow versions of
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those files, /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow, respectively.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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