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Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man5/passwd.5')
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diff --git a/share/man/man5/passwd.5 b/share/man/man5/passwd.5 index 9628beb..d8869da 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/passwd.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/passwd.5 @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ User's id. .It gid User's login group id. .It class -User's general classification (unused). +User's login class. .It change Password change time. .It expire @@ -98,18 +98,26 @@ field is empty, no password will be required to gain access to the machine. This is almost invariably a mistake. Because these files contain the encrypted user passwords, they should not be readable by anyone without appropriate privileges. +Administrative accounts have a password field containing an asterisk +.Ql \&* +which disallows normal logins. .Pp The group field is the group that the user will be placed in upon login. -Since this system supports multiple groups (see +Although this system supports multiple groups (see .Xr groups 1 ) -this field currently has little special meaning. +this field nominates the user's primary groups. +Secondary group memberships are selected in +.Pa /etc/group . .Pp The .Ar class -field is currently unused. In the near future it will be a key to -a +field is a key for a user's login class. +Login classes are defined in +.Xr login.conf 5 , +which is a .Xr termcap 5 -style database of user attributes. +style database of user attributes, accounting, resource and +environment settings. .Pp The .Ar change @@ -117,7 +125,8 @@ field is the number in seconds, .Dv GMT , from the epoch, until the password for the account must be changed. -This field may be left empty to turn off the password aging feature. +This field may be left empty or set to 0 to turn off the +password aging feature. .Pp The .Ar expire @@ -125,14 +134,15 @@ field is the number in seconds, .Dv GMT , from the epoch, until the account expires. -This field may be left empty to turn off the account aging feature. +This field may be left empty or set to 0 to turn off the account +aging feature. .Pp The .Ar gecos field normally contains comma (``,'') separated subfields as follows: .Pp .Bd -unfilled -offset indent -name user's full name +fullname user's full name office user's office number wphone user's work phone number hphone user's home phone number @@ -140,7 +150,12 @@ hphone user's home phone number .Pp This information is used by the .Xr finger 1 -program. +program, and the first field used by the system mailer. +If an ampersand +.Ql \&& +character appears within the fullname field, programs which +use this field will substitute it with a capitalized version +of the account's login name. .Pp The user's home directory is the full .Tn UNIX @@ -526,7 +541,9 @@ password database, with passwords intact .Xr login 1 , .Xr passwd 1 , .Xr getpwent 3 , +.Xr login_getclass 3 , .Xr yp 4 , +.Xr login.conf 5 , .Xr adduser 8 , .Xr pwd_mkdb 8 , .Xr vipw 8 |