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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man5/passwd.5 b/static/openbsd/man5/passwd.5 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..845c185b --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man5/passwd.5 @@ -0,0 +1,318 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: passwd.5,v 1.41 2014/11/02 05:33:04 tedu Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: passwd.5,v 1.4 1995/07/28 06:46:05 phil Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Jason Downs. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)passwd.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: November 2 2014 $ +.Dt PASSWD 5 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm passwd , +.Nm master.passwd +.Nd format of the password file +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm master.passwd +file, readable only by root, consists of newline-separated records, +one per user, containing ten colon separated fields. +These fields are as follows: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width password -offset indent -compact +.It name +User's login name. +.It password +User's +.Em encrypted +password. +.It uid +User's login user ID. +.It gid +User's login group ID. +.It class +User's general classification (see +.Xr login.conf 5 ) . +.It change +Password change time. +.It expire +Account expiration time. +.It gecos +General information about the user. +.It home_dir +User's home directory. +.It shell +User's login shell. +.El +.Pp +The publicly-readable +.Nm passwd +file is generated from the +.Nm master.passwd +file by +.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 +and has the class, change, and expire fields removed. +Also, the encrypted password field is replaced by an asterisk. +.Pp +The password files should never be edited by hand; +.Xr vipw 8 +should be used instead. +.Pp +The +.Ar name +field is the login used to access the computer account, and the +.Ar uid +field is the number associated with it. +They should both be unique across the system (and often across a group of +systems) since they control file access. +.Pp +While it is possible to have multiple entries with identical login names +and/or identical user IDs, it is usually a mistake to do so. +Routines that manipulate these files will often return only one of the +multiple entries, and that one by random selection. +.Pp +The login name may be up to 31 characters long. +For compatibility with legacy software, a login name should start +with a letter and consist solely of letters, numbers, dashes and +underscores. +The login name must never begin with a dash +.Pq Ql \&- ; +also, it is strongly +suggested that neither uppercase characters nor dots +.Pq Ql \&. +be part of the name, as this tends to confuse mailers. +No field may contain a colon +as this has been used historically to separate the fields +in the user database. +.Pp +The password field is the +.Em encrypted +form of the password. +If the +.Ar password +field is empty, no password will be required to gain access to the machine. +This is almost invariably a mistake. +By convention, accounts that are not intended to be logged in to +(e.g. bin, daemon, sshd) only contain a single asterisk in the +.Ar password +field. +Note that there is nothing special about +.Ql * , +it is just one of many characters that cannot occur in a +valid encrypted password +(see +.Xr crypt 3 ) . +Similarly, login accounts not allowing password authentication +but allowing other authentication methods, for example public key +authentication, conventionally have 13 asterisks in the +.Ar password +field. +Because +.Nm master.passwd +contains the encrypted user passwords, it should not be readable by anyone +without appropriate privileges. +.Pp +Configuration for the cipher used to encrypt the password information +is contained in +.Xr login.conf 5 . +.Pp +The +.Ar group +field is the primary group that the user will be placed in upon login. +Note that the +.Xr group 5 +file may grant the user access to supplementary groups. +.Pp +The +.Ar class +field is used by +.Xr login 1 +and other programs to determine which entry in the +.Xr login.conf 5 +database should be used. +.Pp +The +.Ar change +field is the number in seconds, 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. +.Pp +The +.Ar expire +field is the number in seconds, GMT, from the Epoch, until the +account expires. +This field may be left empty to turn off the account aging feature. +.Pp +The +.Ar gecos +field normally contains comma separated subfields as follows: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width office -offset indent -compact +.It name +User's full name. +.It office +User's office location. +.It wphone +User's work phone number. +.It hphone +User's home phone number. +.El +.Pp +The full name may contain an ampersand +.Pq Ql \&& , +which will be replaced by the capitalized login name when the gecos field +is displayed or used by various programs such as +.Xr finger 1 , +.Xr sendmail 8 , +etc. +.Pp +The office and phone number subfields, if they exist, are used by the +.Xr finger 1 +program and possibly by other applications. +.Pp +The +.Ar home_dir +field is the full path name of a directory to be used as the initial +working directory for the user's login shell. +Usually, it is owned by the user and by the user's primary +.Ar group . +.Pp +The +.Ar shell +field is the command interpreter the user prefers. +If there is nothing in the +.Ar shell +field, the default shell +.Pq Pa /bin/sh +is assumed. +Accounts that are not intended to be logged in to usually have +a shell of +.Pa /sbin/nologin . +.Sh YP SUPPORT +If YP is active, the +.Nm passwd +file also supports standard YP exclusions and inclusions, based on user +names and netgroups. +.Pp +Lines beginning with a +.Ql \&- +(minus sign) are entries marked as being excluded +from any following inclusions, which are marked with a +.Ql + +(plus sign). +.Pp +If the second character of the line is a +.Ql @ +(at sign), the operation involves the user fields of all entries in the +netgroup specified by the remaining characters of the +.Ar name +field. +Otherwise, the remainder of the +.Ar name +field is assumed to be a specific user name. +.Pp +The +.Ql + +token may also be alone in the +.Ar name +field, which causes all users from the +.Pa passwd.byname +and +.Pa passwd.byuid +YP maps to be included. +.Pp +If the entry contains non-empty +.Ar uid +or +.Ar gid +fields, the specified numbers will override the information retrieved +from the YP maps. +Additionally, if the +.Ar gecos , +.Ar dir , +or +.Ar shell +entries contain text, it will override the information included via YP. +On some systems, the +.Ar passwd +field may also be overridden. +It is recommended that the standard way to enable YP passwd support in +.Pa /etc/master.passwd +is: +.Pp ++:*:::::::: +.Pp +which after +.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 +will result in +.Pa /etc/passwd +containing: +.Pp ++:*:0:0::: +.Pp +When YP is enabled but temporarily unavailable, login becomes impossible +for all users except those having an entry in the +.Xr netid 5 +file. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr chpass 1 , +.Xr login 1 , +.Xr passwd 1 , +.Xr crypt 3 , +.Xr getpwent 3 , +.Xr login.conf 5 , +.Xr netgroup 5 , +.Xr netid 5 , +.Xr adduser 8 , +.Xr Makefile.yp 8 , +.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 , +.Xr vipw 8 , +.Xr yp 8 +.Pp +.%T "Managing NFS and NIS" +(O'Reilly & Associates) +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Nm passwd +file format first appeared in +.At v1 . +The gecos field first appeared in +.At v3 ; +since the same version, the passwords are encrypted. +The gid field first appeared in +.At v5 ; +the class, change and expire fields as well as the +.Nm master.passwd +file in +.Bx 4.3 Reno . +.Pp +The YP file format first appeared in SunOS. +.Sh CAVEATS +Placing YP exclusions in the file after any inclusions does not cancel +the earlier inclusions. |
