Add xrefs to crypt(3) and pw(8) and add a warning about not manually

altering passwd related files.

PR:             74656
Submitted by:   Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> (original version)
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Tom Rhodes 2005-02-08 19:23:24 +00:00
parent 88e5b12a20
commit 26605dc133

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@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
.\" From: @(#)passwd.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd January 16, 1999
.Dd February 8, 2005
.Dt PASSWD 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ and
as controlled by
.Xr nsswitch.conf 5 .
.Pp
For consistency, none of these files should ever be modified
manually.
.Pp
The
.Nm master.passwd
file is readable only by root, and consists of newline separated
@ -126,7 +129,8 @@ in the user database.
.Pp
The password field is the
.Em encrypted
form of the password.
form of the password, see
.Xr crypt 3 .
If the
.Ar password
field is empty, no password will be required to gain access to the
@ -335,10 +339,12 @@ BEGIN { FS = ":"}
.Xr chpass 1 ,
.Xr login 1 ,
.Xr passwd 1 ,
.Xr crypt 3 ,
.Xr getpwent 3 ,
.Xr login.conf 5 ,
.Xr netgroup 5 ,
.Xr adduser 8 ,
.Xr pw 8 ,
.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 ,
.Xr vipw 8 ,
.Xr yp 8