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master.passwd (5)
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    NAME

    
    
    passwd
    
     
    master.passwd
    
     - format of the password file
    
     
    

    DESCRIPTION

    The files are the local source of password information. They can be used in conjunction with the Hesiod domains `passwd ' and `uid ' and the NIS maps `passwd.byname ' `passwd.byuid ' `master.passwd.byname ' and `master.passwd.byuid ' as controlled by nsswitch.conf5.

    For consistency, none of these files should ever be modified manually.

    The master.passwd file is readable only by root, and consists of newline separated records, one per user, containing ten colon (`:' ) separated fields. These fields are as follows:

    name
    User's login name.
    password
    User's encrypted password.
    uid
    User's id.
    gid
    User's login group id.
    class
    User's login class.
    change
    Password change time.
    expire
    Account expiration time.
    gecos
    General information about the user.
    home_dir
    User's home directory.
    shell
    User's login shell.

    The file is generated from the master.passwd file by pwd_mkdb8, has the class change and expire fields removed, and the password field replaced by a `*' character.

    The name field is the login used to access the computer account, and the uid field is the number associated with it. They should both be unique across the system (and often across a group of systems) since they control file access.

    While it is possible to have multiple entries with identical login names and/or identical user id's, it is usually a mistake to do so. Routines that manipulate these files will often return only one of the multiple entries, and that one by random selection.

    The login name must never begin with a hyphen (`-' ) also, it is strongly suggested that neither upper-case characters or dots (`.' ) be part of the name, as this tends to confuse mailers. No field may contain a colon (`:' ) as this has been used historically to separate the fields in the user database.

       #include <the>
    master.passwd file, the password field is the encrypted form of the password, see crypt(3). If the password field is empty, no password will be required to gain access to the machine. This is almost invariably a mistake, so authentication components such as PAM can forcibly disallow remote access to passwordless accounts. Because this file contains the encrypted user passwords, it should not be readable by anyone without appropriate privileges.

    A password of `*' indicates that password authentication is disabled for that account (logins through other forms of authentication, e.g., using ssh(1) keys, will still work). The field only contains encrypted passwords, and `*' can never be the result of encrypting a password.

    An encrypted password prefixed by `*LOCKED*' means that the account is temporarily locked out and no one can log into it using any authentication. For a convenient command-line interface to account locking, see pw(8).

    The group field is the group that the user will be placed in upon login. Since this system supports multiple groups (see groups(1)) this field currently has little special meaning.

    The class field is a key for a user's login class. Login classes are defined in login.conf5, which is a termcap(5) style database of user attributes, accounting, resource, and environment settings.

    The change field is the number of seconds from the epoch, UTC until the password for the account must be changed. This field may be left empty to turn off the password aging feature.

    The expire field is the number of seconds from the epoch, UTC until the account expires. This field may be left empty to turn off the account aging feature.

    The gecos field normally contains comma (`,' ) separated subfields as follows:

    name
    user's full name
    office
    user's office number
    wphone
    user's work phone number
    hphone
    user's home phone number

    The full name may contain a ampersand (`&' ) which will be replaced by the capitalized login name when the gecos field is displayed or used by various programs such as finger(1), sendmail(8), etc.

    The office and phone number subfields are used by the finger(1) program, and possibly other applications.

    The user's home directory, home_dir is the full UNIX path name where the user will be placed on login.

    The shell field is the command interpreter the user prefers. If there is nothing in the shell field, the Bourne shell (/bin/sh ) is assumed. The conventional way to disable logging into an account once and for all, as it is done for system accounts, is to set its shell to nologin(8).  

    HESIOD SUPPORT

    If `dns ' is specified for the `passwd ' database in nsswitch.conf5, then lookups occur from the `passwd ' Hesiod domain.  

    NIS SUPPORT

    If `nis ' is specified for the `passwd ' database in nsswitch.conf5, then lookups occur from the `passwd.byname ' `passwd.byuid ' `master.passwd.byname ' and `master.passwd.byuid ' NIS maps.  

    COMPAT SUPPORT

    If `compat ' is specified for the `passwd ' database, and either `dns ' or `nis ' is specified for the `passwd_compat ' database in nsswitch.conf5, then the file also supports standard `+ / - ' exclusions and inclusions, based on user names and netgroups.

    Lines beginning with a `-' (minus sign) are entries marked as being excluded from any following inclusions, which are marked with a `+' (plus sign).

    If the second character of the line is a `@' (at sign), the operation involves the user fields of all entries in the netgroup specified by the remaining characters of the name field. Otherwise, the remainder of the name field is assumed to be a specific user name.

    The `+' token may also be alone in the name field, which causes all users from either the Hesiod domain (with `passwd_compat: dns ' or `passwd.byname ' and `passwd.byuid ' NIS maps (with `passwd_compat: nis ' to be included.

    If the entry contains non-empty uid or gid fields, the specified numbers will override the information retrieved from the Hesiod domain or the NIS maps. As well, if the gecos dir or shell entries contain text, it will override the information included via Hesiod or NIS On some systems, the passwd field may also be overridden.  

    FILES

    /etc/passwd
    ASCII password file, with passwords removed
    /etc/pwd.db
    db(3)Ns-format password database, with passwords removed
    /etc/master.passwd
    ASCII password file, with passwords intact
    /etc/spwd.db
    db(3)Ns-format password database, with passwords intact

     

    COMPATIBILITY

    The password file format has changed since BSD 4.3 The following awk script can be used to convert your old-style password file into a new style password file. The additional fields class change and expire are added, but are turned off by default. Class is currently not implemented, but change and expire are; to set them, use the current day in seconds from the epoch + whatever number of seconds of offset you want.
    BEGIN { FS = ":"}
    { print $1 ":" $2 ":" $3 ":" $4 "::0:0:" $5 ":" $6 ":" $7 }
    
     

    SEE ALSO

    chpass(1), login(1), passwd(1), crypt(3), getpwent(3), login.conf5, netgroup(5), nsswitch.conf5, adduser(8), nologin(8), pw(8), pwd_mkdb8, vipw(8), yp(8)

    "Managing NFS and NIS" (O'Reilly & Associates)  

    HISTORY

    A file format appeared in AT&T System v6 .

    The NIS file format first appeared in SunOS.

    The Hesiod support first appeared in Fx 4.1 . It was imported from the Nx Project, where it first appeared in Nx 1.4 .  

    BUGS

    User information should (and eventually will) be stored elsewhere.

    Placing `compat ' exclusions in the file after any inclusions will have unexpected results.


     

    Index

    NAME
    DESCRIPTION
    HESIOD SUPPORT
    NIS SUPPORT
    COMPAT SUPPORT
    FILES
    COMPATIBILITY
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY
    BUGS


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