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Documentation related to passwd

Package: passwd

Description: change and administer password and group data
This package includes passwd, chsh, chfn, and many other programs to maintain password and group data.
Shadow passwords are supported. See /usr/share/doc/passwd/README.Debian
Homepage: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow
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Manual pages:

chage(1) chfn(1) chsh(1)
expiry(1) gpasswd(1) passwd(1)
gshadow(5) passwd(5) shadow(5)
subgid(5) subuid(5) chgpasswd(8)
chpasswd(8) groupadd(8) groupdel(8)
groupmod(8) grpck(8) grpconv(8)
grpunconv(8) newusers(8) pwck(8)
pwconv(8) pwunconv(8) shadowconfig(8)
useradd(8) userdel(8) usermod(8)
vigr(8) vipw(8)

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/passwd /usr/share/doc/passwd/examples

Other packages built from the same source:

login.defs uidmap libsubid5

Manual page search:

chgpasswd(8) chpasswd(8) fgetpwent_r(3)
ftpasswd(1) ftpasswd(8) getpwent_r(3)
gpasswd(1) grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2(1) htpasswd(1)
ldappasswd(1) mkpasswd(1) openssl-passwd(1ssl)
pam_localuser(8) passwd(1) passwd(1ssl)
passwd(5) passwd2des(3) pwhistory_helper(8)
slapd-passwd(5) slappasswd(8) update-passwd(8)

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