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authorMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-09-22 16:09:47 +0000
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<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>