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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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pwconv — Install and Update /etc/shadow with Information from /etc/passwd

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/pwconv

Description

Use the pwconv command to create and update /etc/shadow with information from /etc/passwd.

pwconv relies on a special value of x in the password field of /etc/passwd. This value indicates that the password for the user is already in /etc/shadow and should not be modified.

If the /etc/shadow file does not exist, this command creates /etc/shadow with information from /etc/passwd. The command populates /etc/shadow with the user's login name, password, and password aging information. If password aging information does not exist in /etc/passwd for a given user, none is added to /etc/shadow. However, the last changed information is always ...

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