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author | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-09-22 16:09:47 +0000 |
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committer | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-09-22 16:09:47 +0000 |
commit | 53ad30a63b4d5f80f713963835dee995f9546071 (patch) | |
tree | f304bfa899e693aa1f7de368f8e49ffe46477334 /appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml | |
parent | eb33fb1cad428658dafc39e87d0c57ae479def5f (diff) |
[Bug 190] Put descs in alphabetical order
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1249 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml b/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml index 93caf7368..94dd7bbc0 100644 --- a/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml @@ -1,218 +1,134 @@ <sect2> <title>Contents</title> -<para>The Shadow Password Suite contains the chage, chfn, chsh, expiry, -faillog, gpasswd, lastlog, login, newgrp, passwd, sg, su, chpasswd, -dpasswd, groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, grpck, grpconv, grpunconv, logoutd, -mkpasswd, newusers, pwck, pwconv, pwunconv, useradd, userdel, usermod -and vipw programs.</para> +<para>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 and vipw programs.</para> </sect2> <sect2><title>Description</title> <sect3><title>chage</title> - <para>chage changes the number of days between password changes and the date of -the last password change.</para> - -</sect3> +the last password change.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>chfn</title> - <para>chfn changes user full name, office number, office extension, and home -phone number information for a user's account.</para> +phone number information for a user's account.</para></sect3> -</sect3> +<sect3><title>chpasswd</title> +<para>chpasswd reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard +input and uses this information to update a group of +existing users.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>chsh</title> +<para>chsh changes the user login shell.</para></sect3> -<para>chsh changes the user login shell.</para> - -</sect3> +<sect3><title>dpasswd</title> +<para>dpasswd adds, deletes, and updates dial-up passwords for +user login shells.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>expiry</title> - -<para>Checks and enforces password expiration policy.</para> - -</sect3> +<para>Checks and enforces password expiration policy.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>faillog</title> - <para>faillog formats the contents of the failure log,/var/log/faillog, and -maintains failure counts and limits.</para> - -</sect3> +maintains failure counts and limits.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>gpasswd</title> - -<para>gpasswd is used to administer the /etc/group file</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>lastlog</title> - -<para>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.</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>login</title> - -<para>login is used to establish a new session with the system.</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>newgrp</title> - -<para>newgrp is used to change the current group ID during a -login session.</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>passwd</title> - -<para>passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts.</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>sg</title> - -<para>sg executes command as a different group ID.</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>su</title> - -<para>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.</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>chpasswd</title> - -<para>chpasswd reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard -input and uses this information to update a group of existing users.</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>dpasswd</title> - -<para>dpasswd adds, deletes, and updates dial-up passwords for -user login shells.</para> - -</sect3> +<para>gpasswd is used to administer the /etc/group file</para></sect3> <sect3><title>groupadd</title> - <para>The groupadd command creates a new group account using the values -specified on the command line and the default values from the system.</para> - -</sect3> +specified on the command line and the default values from +the system.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>groupdel</title> - <para>The groupdel command modifies the system account files, deleting all -entries that refer to group.</para> - -</sect3> +entries that refer to group.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>groupmod</title> - <para>The groupmod command modifies the system account files to reflect the -changes that are specified on the command line.</para> - -</sect3> +changes that are specified on the command line.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>grpck</title> - <para>grpck verifies the integrity of the system authentication -information.</para> - -</sect3> +information.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>grpconv</title> +<para>grpunconv converts to shadow group files from normal +group files.</para></sect3> -<para>grpunconv converts to shadow group files from normal group files.</para> +<sect3><title>grpunconv</title> +<para>grpunconv converts from shadow group files to normal +group files.</para></sect3> -</sect3> +<sect3><title>lastlog</title> +<para>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.</para></sect3> -<sect3><title>grpunconv</title> +<sect3><title>login</title> +<para>login is used to establish a new session with the system.</para></sect3> -<para>grpunconv converts from shadow group files to normal group files.</para> +<sect3><title>newgrp</title> +<para>newgrp is used to change the current group ID during a +login session.</para></sect3> -</sect3> +<sect3><title>passwd</title> +<para>passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts.</para></sect3> -<sect3><title>logoutd</title> +<sect3><title>sg</title> +<para>sg executes command as a different group ID.</para></sect3> -<para>logoutd enforces the login time and port restrictions specified in -/etc/porttime.</para> +<sect3><title>su</title> +<para>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.</para></sect3> -</sect3> +<sect3><title>logoutd</title> +<para>logoutd enforces the login time and port restrictions specified in +/etc/porttime.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>mkpasswd</title> - <para>mkpasswd reads a file in the format given by the flags and converts it -to the corresponding database file format.</para> - -</sect3> +to the corresponding database file format.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>newusers</title> - <para>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.</para> - -</sect3> +users.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>pwck</title> - <para>pwck verifies the integrity of the system authentication -information.</para> - -</sect3> +information.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>pwconv</title> - <para>pwconv converts to shadow passwd files from normal passwd -files.</para> - -</sect3> +files.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>pwunconv</title> - -<para>pwunconv converts from shadow passwd files to normal files.</para> - -</sect3> +<para>pwunconv converts from shadow passwd files to normal files.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>useradd</title> - -<para>useradd creates a new user or update default new user information.</para> - -</sect3> +<para>useradd creates a new user or update default new user +information.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>userdel</title> - <para>userdel modifies the system account files, deleting all entries that -refer to a specified login name.</para> - -</sect3> +refer to a specified login name.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>usermod</title> - <para>usermod modifies the system account files to reflect the changes that -are specified on the command line.</para> - -</sect3> +are specified on the command line.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>vipw and vigr</title> - <para>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.</para> - -</sect3> +those files, /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow, respectively.</para></sect3> </sect2> |