The command "pw usermod nobody -Nw random" (or useradd)
generates random password and prints it in encrypted form
but skips choosen random string that makes not much sense
and contradicts the manual page pw.8
Fix it by showing random password in plain text with -N and
without it equally. Add yet another example of how to generate
pw-style random password.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Arguments passed to flags like -d and -k had ambiguous names like "dir".
Change that to more descriptive names like "homedir".
Also, clarify that -u min,max is for UIDs and -i min,max for GIDs.
MFC after: 1 week
Instead of using pw to modify group membership, users often edit
/etc/group by hand, which is discouraged. Provide an example of
adding a user to the wheel group, which is a common use case.
I'm using a different user here as in the previous example as that
deleted the user (although the examples don't necessarily have to
be followed in order).
Reviewed by: rgrimes,0mp
Approved by: 0mp
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19123
to preconfigured values for -e, -p and -w flags.
Use non-negative symbols instead of magic values
in passwd_val/pw_password functions.
PR: 223431
Submitted by: Yuri Pankov (in part, patch for the manual)
Reported by: mav (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
Relnotes: yes
While the return code is broken, some corner case usage depends on the
functionnality, so backout until we get better regression tests covering those
corner case usage.
the intent of -q in this command is to return as exit status the value of the
next group/user id, which does not make sense given exit status are limited to
values between 0 and 255.
from a group without the need to perform the same operation by replacing
the existing list via the '-M' option. The '-M' option requires someone
to fetch the existing members with pw, deleting the undesired members from
the list and sending the altered list back to pw.
Approved by: wes (mentor)
MFC after: 5 days
the user's newly created home directory. If omitted, it's derived
from the current umask.
PR: bin/16880, bin/83253 (partially), bin/104248
MFC in: 1 month
This patch explains -F for usershow and groupshow. Because "groupmod
... -F" doesn't do anything, the patch also drops that from groupmod's
command line args.
PR: 35955
Submitted by: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch <mbertsch@radioactivedata.org>
