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Alan Somers cbaba16b23 Speed up pw operations that edit /etc/group or /etc/passwd r285050 fixed a bug in pw that could lead to /etc/passwd or /etc/group corruption on power loss. However, it fixed it by opening those files with O_SYNC, which is very slow, especially on ZFS. This change replaces O_SYNC with appropriately placed fsync()s instead, which is much faster. Using a ZFS tmpdir, the time to run pw's kyua tests drops from 245s to 35s. Reviewed by: allanjude, bapt, vangyzen, garga Tested on pfSense by: garga MFC after: 4 weeks Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corp Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8319		2016-11-18 16:07:08 +00:00
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tests	DIRDEPS_BUILD: Update dependencies.	2016-08-31 19:30:46 +00:00
bitmap.c	Remove useless check for NULL prior to free.	2012-12-05 13:56:43 +00:00
bitmap.h
cpdir.c	Remove some unneeded headers	2016-03-26 11:41:35 +00:00
grupd.c	Speed up pw operations that edit /etc/group or /etc/passwd	2016-11-18 16:07:08 +00:00
Makefile	Rewrite parsing subcommands arguments of pw(8)	2015-08-02 12:47:50 +00:00
Makefile.depend	Add META_MODE support.	2015-06-13 19:20:56 +00:00
psdate.c	Cleanup a bit includes	2015-08-02 13:22:46 +00:00
psdate.h
pw_conf.c	pw should sanitize the argument of -w.	2016-07-13 17:09:20 +00:00
pw_group.c	Fix typo preventing pw {user,group}next -C from working as expected	2016-06-04 16:31:33 +00:00
pw_log.c	Fix CID 1006692 in /usr/sbin/pw pw_log() function and other fixes	2016-05-24 05:02:24 +00:00
pw_nis.c	Speed up pw operations that edit /etc/group or /etc/passwd	2016-11-18 16:07:08 +00:00
pw_user.c	pw should sanitize the argument of -w.	2016-07-13 17:09:20 +00:00
pw_utils.c	Remove some unneeded headers	2016-03-26 11:41:35 +00:00
pw_vpw.c	Fix up setgrent(3) to have a POSIX-compliant prototype.	2016-07-31 08:05:15 +00:00
pw.8	Add another badly-needed simple example to the pw(8) man page.	2016-09-13 02:18:29 +00:00
pw.c	Fix a repeated typo: rootir -> rootdir.	2015-10-09 14:55:55 +00:00
pw.conf.5	mdoc sweep	2013-05-13 18:13:50 +00:00
pw.h	Remove usage of _WITH_GETLINE from usr.sbin	2016-07-30 01:10:05 +00:00
pwupd.c	Speed up pw operations that edit /etc/group or /etc/passwd	2016-11-18 16:07:08 +00:00
pwupd.h	Fix up setgrent(3) to have a POSIX-compliant prototype.	2016-07-31 08:05:15 +00:00
README
rm_r.c	Do not try to delete the home of the user if is is not a directory for example	2016-07-23 10:19:10 +00:00
strtounum.c	Fix err pointer not initialized to NULL resulting	2015-08-21 14:28:14 +00:00

README

pw is a command-line driven passwd/group editor utility that provides
an easy and safe means of modifying of any/all fields in the system
password files, and has an add, modify and delete mode for user and
group records. Command line options have been fashioned to be similar
to those used by the Sun/shadow commands: useradd, usermod, userdel,
groupadd, groupmod, groupdel, but combines all operations within the
single command `pw'.

User add mode also provides a means of easily setting system useradd
defaults (see pw.conf.5), so that adding a user is as easy as issuing
the command "pw useradd <loginid>". Creation of a unique primary
group for each user and automatic membership in secondary groups
is fully supported.

This program may be FreeBSD specific, but should be trivial to port to
other bsd4.4 variants.

Author and maintainer: David L. Nugent, <davidn@blaze.net.au>

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