Package: passwd Version: 1:4.0.3-30 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch
This probably needs to go upstream, but I'm not even sure who's in charge of this documentation, if *anyone* at all is.... Nor am I sure who's in charge of arranging the translations, etc. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.31 Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages passwd depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii login 1:4.0.3-30 System login tools passwd recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded
33,34c33,35 < contains various pieces of information for each user account. < Included is --- > contains one line for each user account, with seven fields delimited > by colons (`:'). > These fields are 48c49 < User command interpreter --- > Optional user command interpreter 50,58c51,61 < The password field may not be filled if shadow passwords < have been enabled. < If shadow passwords are being used, the encrypted password will < be found in \fI/etc/shadow\fR. < The encryped password consists of 13 characters from the < 64 character alphabet < a thru z, A thru Z, 0 thru 9, \. and /. < Refer to \fBcrypt\fR(3) for details on how this string is < interpreted. --- > The encrypted password field may be blank, in which case no password is > required to authenticate as the specified login name. > (However, some applications which read the \fBpasswd\fR file may decide > not to permit \fIany\fR access at all if the \fIpassword\fR field is > blank.) > If the \fIpassword\fR field is a lower-case `x', then the encrypted > password is actually stored in the \fBshadow\fR(5) file instead; there > \fBmust\fR be a corresponding line in the \fBshadow\fR file, or else > the user account is invalid. > If the \fIpassword\fR field is any other string, then it will be treated > as an encrypted password, as specified by \fBcrypt\fR(3). 89c92 < \fBLogin\fR uses this information to set the value of --- > The \fBlogin\fR(1) program uses this information to set the value of 95c98 < \fBLogin\fR uses this information to set the value of the --- > The \fBlogin\fR(1) program uses this information to set the value of the 99a103,104 > .br > /etc/shadow \- optional encrypted password file 103a109,110 > .BR getent (1), > .BR getpwnam (3),
