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| author | trhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-02-08 19:23:24 +0000 |
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| committer | trhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-02-08 19:23:24 +0000 |
| commit | 8a1803c6fccb1b6e0ec354bfe87adc808a4b604e (patch) | |
| tree | 4e46846955d261d44ecb55afba91cb279802b5f7 /share/man/man5/passwd.5 | |
| parent | a75e6a71107531e1b94a6814e1567f9f3d7bb655 (diff) | |
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Add xrefs to crypt(3) and pw(8) and add a warning about not manually
altering passwd related files.
PR: 74656
Submitted by: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> (original version)
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man5/passwd.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/passwd.5 | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/passwd.5 b/share/man/man5/passwd.5 index 0bbb5b1..e94db8d 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/passwd.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/passwd.5 @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ .\" From: @(#)passwd.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd January 16, 1999 +.Dd February 8, 2005 .Dt PASSWD 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ and as controlled by .Xr nsswitch.conf 5 . .Pp +For consistency, none of these files should ever be modified +manually. +.Pp The .Nm master.passwd file is readable only by root, and consists of newline separated @@ -126,7 +129,8 @@ in the user database. .Pp The password field is the .Em encrypted -form of the password. +form of the password, see +.Xr crypt 3 . If the .Ar password field is empty, no password will be required to gain access to the @@ -335,10 +339,12 @@ BEGIN { FS = ":"} .Xr chpass 1 , .Xr login 1 , .Xr passwd 1 , +.Xr crypt 3 , .Xr getpwent 3 , .Xr login.conf 5 , .Xr netgroup 5 , .Xr adduser 8 , +.Xr pw 8 , .Xr pwd_mkdb 8 , .Xr vipw 8 , .Xr yp 8 |
