| pw.8 (20305) | pw.8 (20679) |
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| 1.\" Copyright (C) 1996 2.\" David L. Nugent. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. --- 8 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" | 1.\" Copyright (C) 1996 2.\" David L. Nugent. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. --- 8 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" |
| 25.\" $Id: pw.8,v 1.3 1996/12/10 00:21:28 joerg Exp $ | 25.\" $Id: pw.8,v 1.4 1996/12/11 00:07:19 joerg Exp $ |
| 26.\" 27.Dd December 9, 1996 28.Dt PW 8 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm pw 32.Nd create, remove, modify & display system users and groups 33.Sh SYNOPSIS --- 721 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 755.El 756.Pp 757.Sh NOTES 758For a summary of options available with each command, you can use 759.Dl pw [command] help 760For example, 761.Dl pw useradd help 762lists all available options for the useradd operation. | 26.\" 27.Dd December 9, 1996 28.Dt PW 8 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm pw 32.Nd create, remove, modify & display system users and groups 33.Sh SYNOPSIS --- 721 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 755.El 756.Pp 757.Sh NOTES 758For a summary of options available with each command, you can use 759.Dl pw [command] help 760For example, 761.Dl pw useradd help 762lists all available options for the useradd operation. |
| 763.Pp 764.Nm pw 765allows 8-bit characters in the passwd gecos field (user's full name, 766office, work and home phone number subfields), but disallows them in 767user login and group names. 768Use 8-bit characters with caution, as connection to the internet will 769require that your mail transport program supports 8BITMIME, and will 770convert headers containing 8-bit characters to 7-bit quoted-printable 771format. 772.Xr sendmail 8 773does support this. 774Use of 8-bit characters in the gecos field should be used in 775conjunction with the user's default locale and character set 776and should not be implemented without their use. 777Using 8-bit characters may also affect other 778programs that transmit the contents of the gecos field over the 779internet, such as 780.Xr fingerd 8 , 781and a small number of tcpip clients, such as irc, where fullnames 782specified in the passwd file may be used by default. |
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| 763.Sh FILES 764.Bl -tag -width /etc/master.passwd.new -compact 765.It Pa /etc/master.passwd 766The user database 767.It Pa /etc/passwd 768A Version 7 format password file 769.It Pa /etc/login.conf 770The user capabilities database --- 29 unchanged lines hidden --- | 783.Sh FILES 784.Bl -tag -width /etc/master.passwd.new -compact 785.It Pa /etc/master.passwd 786The user database 787.It Pa /etc/passwd 788A Version 7 format password file 789.It Pa /etc/login.conf 790The user capabilities database --- 29 unchanged lines hidden --- |