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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'.
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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.
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1686d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThis program may be FreeBSD specific, but should be trivial to port to
1786d7f5d3SJohn Marinoother bsd4.4 variants.
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1986d7f5d3SJohn MarinoAuthor and maintainer: David L. Nugent, <davidn@blaze.net.au>
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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 $
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