About:
pwdutils is a collection of utilities to manage the passwd and shadow user information. The difference to the shadow suite is that these utilities can also modify the information stored in NIS, NIS+, or LDAP. PAM is used for user authentication and changing the pasword. It contains passwd, chage, chfn, chsh, chpasswd, expiry, gpasswd, grpck, groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, grpunconv, newgrp, pwck, pwconv, pwunconv, useradd, userdel, usermod, vipw, and a daemon for changing the password on a remote machine over a secure SSL connection. The daemon also uses PAM, so it can change passwords no matter where they are stored.

Author:
Thorsten Kukuk [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://www.thkukuk.de/pam/pwdutils/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/[..]inux/utils/net/NIS/pwdutils-3.1.0.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/[..]nux/utils/net/NIS/pwdutils-3.1.0.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://www.thkukuk.de/pam/pwdutils/NEWS

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		4 - Beta
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		System :: Systems Administration

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	3.1.0	31-Jul-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	2.5.97	24-Feb-2004	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

• SuSE: New pwdutils packages fix local privilege escalation
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Sun, Nov 6th 2005 16:15
  

 Comments

[»] project name
by digiot - Jun 21st 2005 11:28:12

How many utilities do I need to print my working directory? ;)

Maybe passwdutils or pwutils? (Though some bell is telling me at least the second may already be taken.)

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