186d7f5d3SJohn Marino 286d7f5d3SJohn Marinopw is a command-line driven passwd/group editor utility that provides 386d7f5d3SJohn Marinoan easy and safe means of modifying of any/all fields in the system 486d7f5d3SJohn Marinopassword files, and has an add, modify and delete mode for user and 586d7f5d3SJohn Marinogroup records. Command line options have been fashioned to be similar 686d7f5d3SJohn Marinoto those used by the Sun/shadow commands: useradd, usermod, userdel, 786d7f5d3SJohn Marinogroupadd, groupmod, groupdel, but combines all operations within the 886d7f5d3SJohn Marinosingle command `pw'. 986d7f5d3SJohn Marino 1086d7f5d3SJohn MarinoUser add mode also provides a means of easily setting system useradd 1186d7f5d3SJohn Marinodefaults (see pw.conf.5), so that adding a user is as easy as issuing 1286d7f5d3SJohn Marinothe command "pw useradd <loginid>". Creation of a unique primary 1386d7f5d3SJohn Marinogroup for each user and automatic membership in secondary groups 1486d7f5d3SJohn Marinois fully supported. 1586d7f5d3SJohn Marino 1686d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThis program may be FreeBSD specific, but should be trivial to port to 1786d7f5d3SJohn Marinoother bsd4.4 variants. 1886d7f5d3SJohn Marino 1986d7f5d3SJohn MarinoAuthor and maintainer: David L. Nugent, <davidn@blaze.net.au> 2086d7f5d3SJohn Marino 2186d7f5d3SJohn Marino$FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/pw/README,v 1.5.2.1 2001/01/14 08:43:04 dougb Exp $ 2286d7f5d3SJohn Marino$DragonFly: src/usr.sbin/pw/README,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:30:01 dillon Exp $ 2386d7f5d3SJohn Marino 24