113 lines
3.7 KiB
Groff
113 lines
3.7 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: passwd.1,v 1.9 1997/10/19 12:29:55 lukem Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" from: @(#)passwd.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\"
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.Dd June 6, 1993
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.Dt PASSWD 1
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.Os BSD 4
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm passwd
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.Nd modify a user's password
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl l
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.Op Fl y
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.Op Ar user
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.Nm yppasswd
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.Op Ar user
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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changes the user's local or YP password. First, the user is prompted
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for their current password.
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If the current password is correctly typed, a new password is
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requested.
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The new password must be entered twice to avoid typing errors.
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.Pp
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The new password should be at least six characters long and not
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purely alphabetic.
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Its total length must be less than
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.Dv _PASSWORD_LEN
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(currently 128 characters).
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Numbers, upper case letters and meta characters
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are encouraged.
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.Bl -tag -width flag
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.It Fl l
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This option causes the password to be updated only in the local
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password file. When changing only the local password,
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.Xr pwd_mkdb 8
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is used to update the password databases.
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.It Fl y
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This forces the YP password database entry to be changed, even if
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the user has an entry in the local database. The
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.Xr rpc.yppasswdd 8
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daemon should be running on the YP master server.
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.Nm yppasswd
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is the equivalent of
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.Nm
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with the
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.Fl y
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flag.
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.El
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.Pp
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This is the behavior if no flags are specified:
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If the password is not in the local password database, then
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an attempt is made to use the YP database.
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The super-user is not required to provide a user's current password
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if only the local password is modified.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /etc/master.passwd -compact
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.It Pa /etc/master.passwd
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The user database
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.It Pa /etc/passwd
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A Version 7 format password file
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.It Pa /etc/passwd.XXXXXX
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Temporary copy of the password file
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr chpass 1 ,
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.Xr login 1 ,
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.Xr passwd 5 ,
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.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 ,
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.Xr vipw 8
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.Rs
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.%A Robert Morris
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.%A Ken Thompson
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.%T "UNIX password security"
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.Re
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.At v6 .
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