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| author | Philippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-19 23:44:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Philippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-19 23:44:58 +0000 |
| commit | 3898680cf705cef4e1cc606b44cd91fc4252bcd5 (patch) | |
| tree | 1070287b1054de985087e8287086ae5d4c5ed090 /usr.bin/chpass | |
| parent | 0c7c579ba6b65512b9b668508dc41b8b5b057c65 (diff) | |
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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/chpass')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/chpass/chpass.1 | 25 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/chpass/chpass.1 b/usr.bin/chpass/chpass.1 index c48967a0b49c..9e3ad11074cf 100644 --- a/usr.bin/chpass/chpass.1 +++ b/usr.bin/chpass/chpass.1 @@ -254,8 +254,9 @@ for an explanation of the impact of setting the .Ev PW_SCAN_BIG_IDS environment variable. .Sh NIS INTERACTION -.Nm Chpass -can also be used in conjunction with NIS, however some restrictions +The +.Nm +utility can also be used in conjunction with NIS, however some restrictions apply. Currently, .Nm @@ -311,8 +312,9 @@ change any field. .Pp .It .Em "Password authentication is required" . -.Nm Chpass -will prompt for the user's NIS password before effecting +The +.Nm +utility will prompt for the user's NIS password before effecting any changes. If the password is invalid, all changes will be discarded. @@ -325,8 +327,9 @@ choose to turn off this feature using the flag, described below.) .It .Em "Adding new records to the local password database is discouraged" . -.Nm Chpass -will allow the administrator to add new records to the +The +.Nm +utility will allow the administrator to add new records to the local password database while NIS is enabled, but this can lead to some confusion since the new records are appended to the end of the master password file, usually after the special NIS '+' entries. @@ -341,8 +344,9 @@ to the NIS password maps, provided the server has been started with the .Fl a flag to permitted additions (it refuses them by default). -.Nm Chpass -tries to update the local password database by default; to update the +The +.Nm +utility tries to update the local password database by default; to update the NIS maps instead, invoke chpass with the .Fl y flag. @@ -386,8 +390,9 @@ This flag is largely redundant since operates on NIS entries by default if NIS is enabled. .It Fl d Ar domain Specify a particular NIS domain. -.Nm Chpass -uses the system domain name by default, as set by the +The +.Nm +utility uses the system domain name by default, as set by the .Xr domainname 1 command. The |