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diff --git a/man/man1/gpasswd.1 b/man/man1/gpasswd.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..58f68959 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/gpasswd.1 @@ -0,0 +1,234 @@ +'\" t +.\" Title: gpasswd +.\" Author: Rafal Maszkowski +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.76.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/> +.\" Date: 05/25/2012 +.\" Manual: User Commands +.\" Source: shadow-utils 4.1.5.1 +.\" Language: English +.\" +.TH "GPASSWD" "1" "05/25/2012" "shadow\-utils 4\&.1\&.5\&.1" "User 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" +gpasswd \- administer /etc/group and /etc/gshadow +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.HP \w'\fBgpasswd\fR\ 'u +\fBgpasswd\fR [\fIoption\fR] \fIgroup\fR +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.PP +The +\fBgpasswd\fR +command is used to administer +/etc/group, and /etc/gshadow\&. Every group can have +administrators, +members and a password\&. +.PP +System administrators can use the +\fB\-A\fR +option to define group administrator(s) and the +\fB\-M\fR +option to define members\&. They have all rights of group administrators and members\&. +.PP + +\fBgpasswd\fR +called by +a group administrator +with a group name only prompts for the new password of the +\fIgroup\fR\&. +.PP +If a password is set the members can still use +\fBnewgrp\fR(1) +without a password, and non\-members must supply the password\&. +.SS "Notes about group passwords" +.PP +Group passwords are an inherent security problem since more than one person is permitted to know the password\&. However, groups are a useful tool for permitting co\-operation between different users\&. +.SH "OPTIONS" +.PP +Except for the +\fB\-A\fR +and +\fB\-M\fR +options, the options cannot be combined\&. +.PP +The options which apply to the +\fBgpasswd\fR +command are: +.PP +\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-add\fR \fIuser\fR +.RS 4 +Add the +\fIuser\fR +to the named +\fIgroup\fR\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-delete\fR \fIuser\fR +.RS 4 +Remove the +\fIuser\fR +from the named +\fIgroup\fR\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR +.RS 4 +Display help message and exit\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-Q\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\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-remove\-password\fR +.RS 4 +Remove the password from the named +\fIgroup\fR\&. The group password will be empty\&. Only group members will be allowed to use +\fBnewgrp\fR +to join the named +\fIgroup\fR\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-restrict\fR +.RS 4 +Restrict the access to the named +\fIgroup\fR\&. The group password is set to "!"\&. Only group members with a password will be allowed to use +\fBnewgrp\fR +to join the named +\fIgroup\fR\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-A\fR, \fB\-\-administrators\fR \fIuser\fR,\&.\&.\&. +.RS 4 +Set the list of administrative users\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-M\fR, \fB\-\-members\fR \fIuser\fR,\&.\&.\&. +.RS 4 +Set the list of group members\&. +.RE +.SH "CAVEATS" +.PP +This tool only operates on the +/etc/group +and /etc/gshadow files\&. +Thus you cannot change any NIS or LDAP group\&. This must be performed on the corresponding server\&. +.SH "CONFIGURATION" +.PP +The following configuration variables in +/etc/login\&.defs +change the behavior of this tool: +.PP +\fBENCRYPT_METHOD\fR (string) +.RS 4 +This defines the system default encryption algorithm for encrypting passwords (if no algorithm are specified on the command line)\&. +.sp +It can take one of these values: +\fIDES\fR +(default), +\fIMD5\fR, \fISHA256\fR, \fISHA512\fR\&. +.sp +Note: this parameter overrides the +\fBMD5_CRYPT_ENAB\fR +variable\&. +.RE +.PP +\fBMAX_MEMBERS_PER_GROUP\fR (number) +.RS 4 +Maximum members per group entry\&. When the maximum is reached, a new group entry (line) is started in +/etc/group +(with the same name, same password, and same GID)\&. +.sp +The default value is 0, meaning that there are no limits in the number of members in a group\&. +.sp +This feature (split group) permits to limit the length of lines in the group file\&. This is useful to make sure that lines for NIS groups are not larger than 1024 characters\&. +.sp +If you need to enforce such limit, you can use 25\&. +.sp +Note: split groups may not be supported by all tools (even in the Shadow toolsuite)\&. You should not use this variable unless you really need it\&. +.RE +.PP +\fBMD5_CRYPT_ENAB\fR (boolean) +.RS 4 +Indicate if passwords must be encrypted using the MD5\-based algorithm\&. If set to +\fIyes\fR, new passwords will be encrypted using the MD5\-based algorithm compatible with the one used by recent releases of FreeBSD\&. It supports passwords of unlimited length and longer salt strings\&. Set to +\fIno\fR +if you need to copy encrypted passwords to other systems which don\*(Aqt understand the new algorithm\&. Default is +\fIno\fR\&. +.sp +This variable is superseded by the +\fBENCRYPT_METHOD\fR +variable or by any command line option used to configure the encryption algorithm\&. +.sp +This variable is deprecated\&. You should use +\fBENCRYPT_METHOD\fR\&. +.RE +.PP +\fBSHA_CRYPT_MIN_ROUNDS\fR (number), \fBSHA_CRYPT_MAX_ROUNDS\fR (number) +.RS 4 +When +\fBENCRYPT_METHOD\fR +is set to +\fISHA256\fR +or +\fISHA512\fR, this defines the number of SHA rounds used by the encryption algorithm by default (when the number of rounds is not specified on the command line)\&. +.sp +With a lot of rounds, it is more difficult to brute forcing the password\&. But note also that more CPU resources will be needed to authenticate users\&. +.sp +If not specified, the libc will choose the default number of rounds (5000)\&. +.sp +The values must be inside the 1000\-999,999,999 range\&. +.sp +If only one of the +\fBSHA_CRYPT_MIN_ROUNDS\fR +or +\fBSHA_CRYPT_MAX_ROUNDS\fR +values is set, then this value will be used\&. +.sp +If +\fBSHA_CRYPT_MIN_ROUNDS\fR +> +\fBSHA_CRYPT_MAX_ROUNDS\fR, the highest value will be used\&. +.RE +.SH "FILES" +.PP +/etc/group +.RS 4 +Group account information\&. +.RE +.PP +/etc/gshadow +.RS 4 +Secure group account information\&. +.RE +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.PP + +\fBnewgrp\fR(1), +\fBgroupadd\fR(8), +\fBgroupdel\fR(8), +\fBgroupmod\fR(8), +\fBgrpck\fR(8), +\fBgroup\fR(5), \fBgshadow\fR(5)\&. |