Doculus

Manuals

User commands

chage(1)

Change user password expiry information

chfn(1)

Change real user name and information

chsh(1)

Change login shell

expiry(1)

Check and enforce password expiration policy

gpasswd(1)

Gpasswd - administer the /etc/group and /etc/gshadow files

groups(1)

Display current group names

login(1)

Begin session on the system

newgrp(1)

Log in to a new group

passwd(1)

Change user password

sg(1)

Execute command as different group ID

su(1)

Change user ID or become superuser

Administration commands

chgpasswd(8)

Update group passwords in batch mode

chpasswd(8)

Update passwords in batch mode

faillog(8)

Display faillog records or set login failure limits

groupadd(8)

Create a new group

groupdel(8)

Delete a group

groupmems(8)

Administer members of a user's primary group

groupmod(8)

Modify a group definition on the system

grpck(8)

Verify integrity of group files

grpconv(8)

Convert to and from shadow passwords and groups

grpunconv(8)

Convert to and from shadow passwords and groups

lastlog(8)

Reports the most recent login of all users or of a given user

logoutd(8)

Enforce login time restrictions

newusers(8)

Update and create new users in batch

nologin(8)

Politely refuse a login

pwck(8)

Verify integrity of password files

pwconv(8)

Convert to and from shadow passwords and groups

pwunconv(8)

Convert to and from shadow passwords and groups

useradd(8)

Create a new user or update default new user information

userdel(8)

Delete a user account and related files

usermod(8)

Modify a user account

vigr(8)

Edit the password, group, shadow-password or shadow-group file

vipw(8)

Edit the password, group, shadow-password or shadow-group file

File formats

faillog(5)

Login failure logging file

gshadow(5)

Shadowed group file

login.defs(5)

Shadow password suite configuration

shadow(5)

Encrypted password file

Library functions

shadow(3)

Encrypted password file routines