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Update manpage; corrections, clarifications and login class (with xref).

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David Nugent 1997-02-10 16:03:21 +00:00
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@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ User's id.
.It gid
User's login group id.
.It class
User's general classification (unused).
User's login class.
.It change
Password change time.
.It expire
@ -98,18 +98,26 @@ field is empty, no password will be required to gain access to the
machine. This is almost invariably a mistake.
Because these files contain the encrypted user passwords, they should
not be readable by anyone without appropriate privileges.
Administrative accounts have a password field containing an asterisk
.Ql \&*
which disallows normal logins.
.Pp
The group field is the group that the user will be placed in upon login.
Since this system supports multiple groups (see
Although this system supports multiple groups (see
.Xr groups 1 )
this field currently has little special meaning.
this field nominates the user's primary groups.
Secondary group memberships are selected in
.Pa /etc/group .
.Pp
The
.Ar class
field is currently unused. In the near future it will be a key to
a
field is a key for a user's login class.
Login classes are defined in
.Xr login.conf 5 ,
which is a
.Xr termcap 5
style database of user attributes.
style database of user attributes, accounting, resource and
environment settings.
.Pp
The
.Ar change
@ -117,7 +125,8 @@ field is the number in seconds,
.Dv GMT ,
from the epoch, until the
password for the account must be changed.
This field may be left empty to turn off the password aging feature.
This field may be left empty or set to 0 to turn off the
password aging feature.
.Pp
The
.Ar expire
@ -125,14 +134,15 @@ field is the number in seconds,
.Dv GMT ,
from the epoch, until the
account expires.
This field may be left empty to turn off the account aging feature.
This field may be left empty or set to 0 to turn off the account
aging feature.
.Pp
The
.Ar gecos
field normally contains comma (``,'') separated subfields as follows:
.Pp
.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
name user's full name
fullname user's full name
office user's office number
wphone user's work phone number
hphone user's home phone number
@ -140,7 +150,12 @@ hphone user's home phone number
.Pp
This information is used by the
.Xr finger 1
program.
program, and the first field used by the system mailer.
If an ampersand
.Ql \&&
character appears within the fullname field, programs which
use this field will substitute it with a capitalized version
of the account's login name.
.Pp
The user's home directory is the full
.Tn UNIX
@ -526,7 +541,9 @@ password database, with passwords intact
.Xr login 1 ,
.Xr passwd 1 ,
.Xr getpwent 3 ,
.Xr login_getclass 3 ,
.Xr yp 4 ,
.Xr login.conf 5 ,
.Xr adduser 8 ,
.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 ,
.Xr vipw 8