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# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
# Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
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"POT-Creation-Date: 2024-03-01 17:03+0100\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
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msgid "passwd"
msgstr ""
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msgid "2023-10-31"
msgstr ""
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msgid "Linux man-pages 6.06"
msgstr ""
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msgid "NAME"
msgstr ""
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msgid "passwd - password file"
msgstr ""
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msgid "DESCRIPTION"
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
"The I</etc/passwd> file is a text file that describes user login accounts "
"for the system. It should have read permission allowed for all users (many "
"utilities, like B<ls>(1) use it to map user IDs to usernames), but write "
"access only for the superuser."
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
"In the good old days there was no great problem with this general read "
"permission. Everybody could read the encrypted passwords, but the hardware "
"was too slow to crack a well-chosen password, and moreover the basic "
"assumption used to be that of a friendly user-community. These days many "
"people run some version of the shadow password suite, where I</etc/passwd> "
"has an \\[aq]x\\[aq] character in the password field, and the encrypted "
"passwords are in I</etc/shadow>, which is readable by the superuser only."
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
"If the encrypted password, whether in I</etc/passwd> or in I</etc/shadow>, "
"is an empty string, login is allowed without even asking for a password. "
"Note that this functionality may be intentionally disabled in applications, "
"or configurable (for example using the \\[dq]B<nullok>\\[dq] or "
"\\[dq]B<nonull>\\[dq] arguments to B<pam_unix>(8))."
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
"If the encrypted password in I</etc/passwd> is \"I<*NP*>\" (without the "
"quotes), the shadow record should be obtained from an NIS+ server."
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
"Regardless of whether shadow passwords are used, many system administrators "
"use an asterisk (*) in the encrypted password field to make sure that this "
"user can not authenticate themself using a password. (But see NOTES below.)"
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
"If you create a new login, first put an asterisk (*) in the password field, "
"then use B<passwd>(1) to set it."
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
"Each line of the file describes a single user, and contains seven colon-"
"separated fields:"
msgstr ""
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msgid "name:password:UID:GID:GECOS:directory:shell\n"
msgstr ""
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msgid "The field are as follows:"
msgstr ""
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msgid "I<name>"
msgstr ""
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msgid "This is the user's login name. It should not contain capital letters."
msgstr ""
#. type: TP
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msgid "I<password>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
"This is either the encrypted user password, an asterisk (*), or the letter "
"\\[aq]x\\[aq]. (See B<pwconv>(8) for an explanation of \\[aq]x\\[aq].)"
msgstr ""
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msgid "I<UID>"
msgstr ""
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msgid "The privileged I<root> login account (superuser) has the user ID 0."
msgstr ""
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msgid "I<GID>"
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
"This is the numeric primary group ID for this user. (Additional groups for "
"the user are defined in the system group file; see B<group>(5))."
msgstr ""
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msgid "I<GECOS>"
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
"This field (sometimes called the \"comment field\") is optional and used "
"only for informational purposes. Usually, it contains the full username. "
"Some programs (for example, B<finger>(1)) display information from this "
"field."
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
"GECOS stands for \"General Electric Comprehensive Operating System\", which "
"was renamed to GCOS when GE's large systems division was sold to Honeywell. "
"Dennis Ritchie has reported: \"Sometimes we sent printer output or batch "
"jobs to the GCOS machine. The gcos field in the password file was a place "
"to stash the information for the $IDENTcard. Not elegant.\""
msgstr ""
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msgid "I<directory>"
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
"This is the user's home directory: the initial directory where the user is "
"placed after logging in. The value in this field is used to set the B<HOME> "
"environment variable."
msgstr ""
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msgid "I<shell>"
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
"This is the program to run at login (if empty, use I</bin/sh>). If set to a "
"nonexistent executable, the user will be unable to login through "
"B<login>(1). The value in this field is used to set the B<SHELL> "
"environment variable."
msgstr ""
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msgid "FILES"
msgstr ""
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msgid "I</etc/passwd>"
msgstr ""
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msgid "NOTES"
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
"If you want to create user groups, there must be an entry in I</etc/group>, "
"or no group will exist."
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
"If the encrypted password is set to an asterisk (*), the user will be unable "
"to login using B<login>(1), but may still login using B<rlogin>(1), run "
"existing processes and initiate new ones through B<rsh>(1), B<cron>(8), "
"B<at>(1), or mail filters, etc. Trying to lock an account by simply "
"changing the shell field yields the same result and additionally allows the "
"use of B<su>(1)."
msgstr ""
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msgid "SEE ALSO"
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
"B<chfn>(1), B<chsh>(1), B<login>(1), B<passwd>(1), B<su>(1), B<crypt>(3), "
"B<getpwent>(3), B<getpwnam>(3), B<group>(5), B<shadow>(5), B<vipw>(8)"
msgstr ""
#. type: TH
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msgid "2023-02-05"
msgstr ""
#. type: TH
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msgid "Linux man-pages 6.04"
msgstr ""
#. type: TH
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msgid "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
msgstr ""
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