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diff --git a/man5/passwd.5 b/man5/passwd.5 index 9b9a136..1570383 100644 --- a/man5/passwd.5 +++ b/man5/passwd.5 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ .\" Modified Sun Jun 18 01:53:57 1995 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) .\" Modified Mon Jan 5 20:24:40 MET 1998 by Michael Haardt .\" (michael@cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de) -.TH passwd 5 2023-02-05 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH passwd 5 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME passwd \- password file .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ It should have read permission allowed for all users (many utilities, like .BR ls (1) use it to map user IDs to usernames), but write access only for the superuser. -.PP +.P In the good old days there was no great problem with this general read permission. Everybody could read the encrypted passwords, but the @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ has an \[aq]x\[aq] character in the password field, and the encrypted passwords are in .IR /etc/shadow , which is readable by the superuser only. -.PP +.P If the encrypted password, whether in .I /etc/passwd or in @@ -44,32 +44,32 @@ or .RB \[dq] nonull \[dq] arguments to .BR pam_unix (8)). -.PP +.P If the encrypted password in .I /etc/passwd is "\fI*NP*\fP" (without the quotes), the shadow record should be obtained from an NIS+ server. -.PP +.P 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.) -.PP +.P If you create a new login, first put an asterisk (*) in the password field, then use .BR passwd (1) to set it. -.PP +.P Each line of the file describes a single user, and contains seven colon-separated fields: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX name:password:UID:GID:GECOS:directory:shell .EE .in -.PP +.P The field are as follows: .TP 12 .I name @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ environment variable. If you want to create user groups, there must be an entry in .IR /etc/group , or no group will exist. -.PP +.P If the encrypted password is set to an asterisk (*), the user will be unable to login using .BR login (1), |