From 97c26c1924b076ef23ebe4381558e8aa025712b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 16:54:37 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 1:4.13+dfsg1. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- man/man8/vipw.8 | 137 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 137 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man/man8/vipw.8 (limited to 'man/man8/vipw.8') diff --git a/man/man8/vipw.8 b/man/man8/vipw.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d686fdd --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man8/vipw.8 @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +'\" t +.\" Title: vipw +.\" Author: Marek Michałkiewicz +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot +.\" Date: 11/08/2022 +.\" Manual: System Management Commands +.\" Source: shadow-utils 4.13 +.\" Language: English +.\" +.TH "VIPW" "8" "11/08/2022" "shadow\-utils 4\&.13" "System Management Commands" +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * Define some portability stuff +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 +.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * set default formatting +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" disable hyphenation +.nh +.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) +.ad l +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.SH "NAME" +vipw, vigr \- edit the password, group, shadow\-password or shadow\-group file +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.HP \w'\fBvipw\fR\ 'u +\fBvipw\fR [\fIoptions\fR] +.HP \w'\fBvigr\fR\ 'u +\fBvigr\fR [\fIoptions\fR] +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.PP +The +\fBvipw\fR +and +\fBvigr\fR +commands edits the files +/etc/passwd +and +/etc/group, respectively\&. With the +\fB\-s\fR +flag, they will edit the shadow versions of those files, +/etc/shadow +and +/etc/gshadow, respectively\&. The programs will set the appropriate locks to prevent file corruption\&. When looking for an editor, the programs will first try the environment variable +\fB$VISUAL\fR, then the environment variable +\fB$EDITOR\fR, and finally the default editor, +\fBvi\fR(1)\&. +.SH "OPTIONS" +.PP +The options which apply to the +\fBvipw\fR +and +\fBvigr\fR +commands are: +.PP +\fB\-g\fR, \fB\-\-group\fR +.RS 4 +Edit group database\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR +.RS 4 +Display help message and exit\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-passwd\fR +.RS 4 +Edit passwd database\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR +.RS 4 +Quiet mode\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-root\fR\ \&\fICHROOT_DIR\fR +.RS 4 +Apply changes in the +\fICHROOT_DIR\fR +directory and use the configuration files from the +\fICHROOT_DIR\fR +directory\&. Only absolute paths are supported\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-shadow\fR +.RS 4 +Edit shadow or gshadow database\&. +.RE +.SH "ENVIRONMENT" +.PP +\fBVISUAL\fR +.RS 4 +Editor to be used\&. +.RE +.PP +\fBEDITOR\fR +.RS 4 +Editor to be used if +\fBVISUAL\fR +is not set\&. +.RE +.SH "FILES" +.PP +/etc/group +.RS 4 +Group account information\&. +.RE +.PP +/etc/gshadow +.RS 4 +Secure group account information\&. +.RE +.PP +/etc/passwd +.RS 4 +User account information\&. +.RE +.PP +/etc/shadow +.RS 4 +Secure user account information\&. +.RE +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.PP +\fBvi\fR(1), +\fBgroup\fR(5), +\fBgshadow\fR(5) +, +\fBpasswd\fR(5), , +\fBshadow\fR(5)\&. -- cgit v1.2.3