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161 lines
5.0 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" @(#)passwd.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\"
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.Dd June 6, 1993
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.Dt PASSWD 1
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.Os BSD 4
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm passwd, yppasswd
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.Nd modify a user's password
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm passwd
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.Op Fl l
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.Op Ar user
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm Passwd
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changes the user's Kerberos password. First, the user is prompted for their
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current password.
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If the current password is correctly typed, a new password is
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requested.
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The new password must be entered twice to avoid typing errors.
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.Pp
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The new password should be at least six characters long and not
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purely alphabetic.
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Its total length must be less than
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.Dv _PASSWORD_LEN
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(currently 128 characters).
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Numbers, upper case letters and meta characters
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are encouraged.
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.Pp
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Once the password has been verified,
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.Nm passwd
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communicates the new password information to
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the Kerberos authenticating host.
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.Bl -tag -width flag
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.It Fl l
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This option causes the password to be updated only in the local
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password file, and not with the Kerberos database.
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When changing only the local password,
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.Xr pwd_mkdb 8
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is used to update the password databases.
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.El
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.Pp
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To change another user's Kerberos password, one must first
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run
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.Xr kinit 1
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followed by
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.Xr passwd 1 .
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The super-user is not required to provide a user's current password
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if only the local password is modified.
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.Sh NIS INTERACTION
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.Nm Passwd
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has built-in support for NIS. If a user exists in the NIS password
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database but does not exist locally,
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.Nm passwd
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automatically switches into ``yppasswd'' mode. If the specified
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user does not exist in either the local password database of the
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NIS password maps,
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.Nm passwd
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returns an error.
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The following additional options are supported for use with NIS:
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.Bl -tag -width flag
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.It Fl y
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The
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.Fl y
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flag overrides
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.Nm passwd 's
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checking heuristics and forces
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it into NIS mode.
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.It Fl l
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When NIS is enabled, the
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.Fl l
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flag can be used to force
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.Nm passwd
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into ``local only'' mode. This flag can be used to change the entry
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for a local user when an NIS user exists when the same login name.
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For example, you will sometimes find entries for system ``placeholder''
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users such as
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.Pa bin
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or
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.Pa daemon
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in both the NIS password maps and the local user database. By
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default,
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.Nm passwd
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will try to change the NIS password. The
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.Fl l
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flag can be used to change the local password instead.
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.El
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.Pp
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When changing an NIS password, the user is required to provide
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the old password for authentication (the
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.Xr yppasswdd 8
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daemon requires the original password before
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it will allow any changes to the NIS password maps).
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This restriction applies even to the
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super-user: the only way for an administrator to override a
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user's NIS password is by modifying the NIS password maps on
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the master NIS server.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /etc/master.passwd -compact
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.It Pa /etc/master.passwd
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The user database
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.It Pa /etc/passwd
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A Version 7 format password file
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.It Pa /etc/passwd.XXXXXX
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Temporary copy of the password file
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr chpass 1 ,
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.Xr kerberos 1 ,
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.Xr kinit 1 ,
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.Xr login 1 ,
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.Xr passwd 5 ,
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.Xr kpasswdd 8 ,
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.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 ,
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.Xr vipw 8
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.Rs
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.%A Robert Morris
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.%A Ken Thompson
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.%T "UNIX password security"
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.Re
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.Sh NOTES
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The
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.Xr yppasswd 1
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command is really only a link to
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.Nm passwd .
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Nm passwd
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command appeared in
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.At v6 .
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