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27.Dd January 11, 2004
28.Dt PW 8
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm pw
32.Nd create, remove, modify & display system users and groups
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Nm
35.Op Fl V Ar etcdir
36.Ar useradd
37.Op name|uid
38.Op Fl C Ar config
39.Op Fl q
40.Op Fl n Ar name
41.Op Fl u Ar uid
42.Op Fl c Ar comment
43.Op Fl d Ar dir
44.Op Fl e Ar date
45.Op Fl p Ar date
46.Op Fl g Ar group
47.Op Fl G Ar grouplist
48.Op Fl m
49.Op Fl k Ar dir
50.Op Fl w Ar method
51.Op Fl s Ar shell
52.Op Fl o
53.Op Fl L Ar class
54.Op Fl h Ar fd | Fl H Ar fd
55.Op Fl N
56.Op Fl P
57.Op Fl Y
58.Nm
59.Op Fl V Ar etcdir
60.Ar useradd
61.Op name|uid
62.Fl D
63.Op Fl C Ar config
64.Op Fl q
65.Op Fl b Ar dir
66.Op Fl e Ar days
67.Op Fl p Ar days
68.Op Fl g Ar group
69.Op Fl G Ar grouplist
70.Op Fl k Ar dir
71.Op Fl u Ar min , Ns Ar max
72.Op Fl i Ar min , Ns Ar max
73.Op Fl w Ar method
74.Op Fl s Ar shell
75.Op Fl y Ar path
76.Nm
77.Op Fl V Ar etcdir
78.Ar userdel
79.Op name|uid
80.Op Fl n Ar name
81.Op Fl u Ar uid
82.Op Fl r
83.Op Fl Y
84.Nm
85.Op Fl V Ar etcdir
86.Ar usermod
87.Op name|uid
88.Op Fl C Ar config
89.Op Fl q
90.Op Fl n Ar name
91.Op Fl u Ar uid
92.Op Fl c Ar comment
93.Op Fl d Ar dir
94.Op Fl e Ar date
95.Op Fl p Ar date
96.Op Fl g Ar group
97.Op Fl G Ar grouplist
98.Op Fl l Ar name
99.Op Fl m
100.Op Fl k Ar dir
101.Op Fl w Ar method
102.Op Fl s Ar shell
103.Op Fl L Ar class
104.Op Fl h Ar fd | Fl H Ar fd
105.Op Fl N
106.Op Fl P
107.Op Fl Y
108.Nm
109.Op Fl V Ar etcdir
110.Ar usershow
111.Op name|uid
112.Op Fl n Ar name
113.Op Fl u Ar uid
114.Op Fl F
115.Op Fl P
116.Op Fl 7
117.Op Fl a
118.Nm
119.Op Fl V Ar etcdir
120.Ar usernext
121.Op Fl C Ar config
122.Op Fl q
123.Nm
124.Op Fl V Ar etcdir
125.Ar groupadd
126.Op group|gid
127.Op Fl C Ar config
128.Op Fl q
129.Op Fl n Ar group
130.Op Fl g Ar gid
131.Op Fl M Ar members
132.Op Fl o
133.Op Fl h Ar fd | Fl H Ar fd
134.Op Fl N
135.Op Fl P
136.Op Fl Y
137.Nm
138.Op Fl V Ar etcdir
139.Ar groupdel
140.Op group|gid
141.Op Fl n Ar name
142.Op Fl g Ar gid
143.Op Fl Y
144.Nm
145.Op Fl V Ar etcdir
146.Ar groupmod
147.Op group|gid
148.Op Fl C Ar config
149.Op Fl q
150.Op Fl n Ar name
151.Op Fl g Ar gid
152.Op Fl l Ar name
153.Op Fl M Ar members
154.Op Fl m Ar newmembers
155.Op Fl h Ar fd | Fl H Ar fd
156.Op Fl N
157.Op Fl P
158.Op Fl Y
159.Nm
160.Op Fl V Ar etcdir
161.Ar groupshow
162.Op group|gid
163.Op Fl n Ar name
164.Op Fl g Ar gid
165.Op Fl F
166.Op Fl P
167.Op Fl a
168.Nm
169.Op Fl V Ar etcdir
170.Ar groupnext
171.Op Fl C Ar config
172.Op Fl q
173.Nm
174.Op Fl V Ar etcdir
175.Ar lock
176.Op name|uid
177.Op Fl C Ar config
178.Op Fl q
179.Nm
180.Op Fl V Ar etcdir
181.Ar unlock
182.Op name|uid
183.Op Fl C Ar config
184.Op Fl q
185.Sh DESCRIPTION
186The
187.Nm
188utility is a command-line based editor for the system
189.Ar user
190and
191.Ar group
192files, allowing the superuser an easy to use and standardized way of adding,
193modifying and removing users and groups.
194Note that
195.Nm
196only operates on the local user and group files.
197.Tn NIS
198users and groups must be
199maintained on the
200.Tn NIS
201server.
202The
203.Nm
204utility handles updating the
205.Pa passwd ,
206.Pa master.passwd ,
207.Pa group
208and the secure and insecure
209password database files, and must be run as root.
210.Pp
211The first one or two keywords provided to
212.Nm
213on the command line provide the context for the remainder of the arguments.
214The keywords
215.Ar user
216and
217.Ar group
218may be combined with
219.Ar add ,
220.Ar del ,
221.Ar mod ,
222.Ar show ,
223or
224.Ar next
225in any order.
226(For example,
227.Ar showuser ,
228.Ar usershow ,
229.Ar show user ,
230and
231.Ar user show
232all mean the same thing.)
233This flexibility is useful for interactive scripts calling
234.Nm
235for user and group database manipulation.
236Following these keywords, you may optionally specify the user or group name or numeric
237id as an alternative to using the
238.Fl n Ar name ,
239.Fl u Ar uid ,
240.Fl g Ar gid
241options.
242.Pp
243The following flags are common to most or all modes of operation:
244.Pp
245.Bl -tag -width "-G grouplist"
246.It Fl V Ar etcdir
247This flag sets an alternate location for the password, group and configuration files,
248and may be used to maintain a user/group database in an alternate location.
249If this switch is specified, the system
250.Pa /etc/pw.conf
251will not be sourced for default configuration data, but the file pw.conf in the
252specified directory will be used instead (or none, if it does not exist).
253The
254.Fl C
255flag may be used to override this behaviour.
256As an exception to the general rule where options must follow the operation
257type, the
258.Fl V
259flag may be used on the command line before the operation keyword.
260.It Fl C Ar config
261By default,
262.Nm
263reads the file
264.Pa /etc/pw.conf
265to obtain policy information on how new user accounts and groups are to be created.
266The
267.Fl C
268option specifies a different configuration file.
269While most of the contents of the configuration file may be overridden via
270command-line options, it may be more convenient to keep standard information in a
271configuration file.
272.It Fl q
273Use of this option causes
274.Nm
275to suppress error messages, which may be useful in interactive environments where it
276is preferable to interpret status codes returned by
277.Nm
278rather than messing up a carefully formatted display.
279.It Fl N
280This option is available in
281.Ar add
282and
283.Ar modify
284operations, and tells
285.Nm
286to output the result of the operation without updating the user or group
287databases.
288You may use the
289.Fl P
290option to switch between standard passwd and readable formats.
291.It Fl Y
292Using this option with any of the update modes causes
293.Nm
294to run
295.Xr make 1
296after changing to the directory
297.Pa /var/yp .
298This is intended to allow automatic updating of
299.Tn NIS
300database files.
301If separate passwd and group files are being used by
302.Tn NIS ,
303then use the
304.Fl y Ar path
305option to specify the location of the
306.Tn NIS
307passwd database so that
308.Nm
309will concurrently update it with the system password
310databases.
311.El
312.Sh USER OPTIONS
313The following options apply to the
314.Ar useradd
315and
316.Ar usermod
317commands:
318.Pp
319.Bl -tag -width "-G grouplist"
320.It Fl n Ar name
321Specify the user/account name.
322.It Fl u Ar uid
323Specify the user/account numeric id.
324.Pp
325Usually, you only need to provide one or the other of these options, as the account
326name will imply the uid, or vice versa.
327However, there are times when you need to provide both.
328For example, when changing the uid of an existing user with
329.Ar usermod ,
330or overriding the default uid when creating a new account.
331If you wish
332.Nm
333to automatically allocate the uid to a new user with
334.Ar useradd ,
335then you should
336.Em not
337use the
338.Fl u
339option.
340You may also provide either the account or userid immediately after the
341.Ar useradd ,
342.Ar userdel ,
343.Ar usermod
344or
345.Ar usershow
346keywords on the command line without using the
347.Fl n
348or
349.Fl u
350options.
351.El
352.Pp
353.Bl -tag -width "-G grouplist"
354.It Fl c Ar comment
355This field sets the contents of the passwd GECOS field, which normally contains up
356to four comma-separated fields containing the user's full name, office or location,
357and work and home phone numbers.
358These sub-fields are used by convention only, however, and are optional.
359If this field is to contain spaces, you need to quote the comment itself with double
360quotes
361.Ql \&" .
362Avoid using commas in this field as these are used as sub-field separators, and the
363colon
364.Ql \&:
365character also cannot be used as this is the field separator for the passwd
366file itself.
367.It Fl d Ar dir
368This option sets the account's home directory.
369Normally, you will only use this if the home directory is to be different from the
370default determined from
371.Pa /etc/pw.conf
372- normally
373.Pa /home
374with the account name as a subdirectory.
375.It Fl e Ar date
376Set the account's expiration date.
377Format of the date is either a UNIX time in decimal, or a date in
378.Ql dd-mmm-yy[yy]
379format, where dd is the day, mmm is the month, either in numeric or alphabetic format
380('Jan', 'Feb', etc) and year is either a two or four digit year.
381This option also accepts a relative date in the form
382.Ql \&+n[mhdwoy]
383where
384.Ql \&n
385is a decimal, octal (leading 0) or hexadecimal (leading 0x) digit followed by the
386number of Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months or Years from the current date at
387which the expiration date is to be set.
388.It Fl p Ar date
389Set the account's password expiration date.
390This field is similar to the account expiration date option, except that it
391applies to forced password changes.
392This is set in the same manner as the
393.Fl e
394option.
395.It Fl g Ar group
396Set the account's primary group to the given group.
397.Ar group
398may be defined by either its name or group number.
399.It Fl G Ar grouplist
400Set additional group memberships for an account.
401.Ar grouplist
402is a comma-separated list of group names or group numbers.
403The user's name is added to the group lists in
404.Pa /etc/group ,
405and
406removed from any groups not specified in
407.Ar grouplist .
408Note: a user should not be added to their primary group with
409.Ar grouplist .
410Also, group membership changes do not take effect for current user login
411sessions, requiring the user to reconnect to be affected by the changes.
412.It Fl L Ar class
413This option sets the login class for the user being created.
414See
415.Xr login.conf 5
416and
417.Xr passwd 5
418for more information on user login classes.
419.It Fl m
420This option instructs
421.Nm
422to attempt to create the user's home directory.
423While primarily useful when adding a new account with
424.Ar useradd ,
425this may also be of use when moving an existing user's home directory elsewhere on
426the file system.
427The new home directory is populated with the contents of the
428.Ar skeleton
429directory, which typically contains a set of shell configuration files that the
430user may personalize to taste.
431When
432.Fl m
433is used on an account with
434.Ar usermod ,
435existing configuration files in the user's home directory are
436.Em not
437overwritten from the skeleton files.
438.Pp
439When a user's home directory is created, it will by default be a subdirectory of the
440.Ar basehome
441directory as specified by the
442.Fl b
443option (see below), bearing the name of the new account.
444This can be overridden by the
445.Fl d
446option on the command line, if desired.
447.It Fl k Ar dir
448Set the
449.Ar skeleton
450directory, from which basic startup and configuration files are copied when
451the user's home directory is created.
452This option only has meaning when used with the
453.Fl d
454or
455.Fl m
456flags.
457.It Fl s Ar shell
458Set or changes the user's login shell to
459.Ar shell .
460If the path to the shell program is omitted,
461.Nm
462searches the
463.Ar shellpath
464specified in
465.Pa /etc/pw.conf
466and fills it in as appropriate.
467Note that unless you have a specific reason to do so, you should avoid
468specifying the path - this will allow
469.Nm
470to validate that the program exists and is executable.
471Specifying a full path (or supplying a blank "" shell) avoids this check
472and allows for such entries as
473.Pa /nonexistent
474that should be set for accounts not intended for interactive login.
475.It Fl h Ar fd
476This option provides a special interface by which interactive scripts can
477set an account password using
478.Nm .
479Because the command line and environment are fundamentally insecure mechanisms
480by which programs can accept information,
481.Nm
482will only allow setting of account and group passwords via a file descriptor
483(usually a pipe between an interactive script and the program).
484.Ar sh ,
485.Ar bash ,
486.Ar ksh
487and
488.Ar perl
489all possess mechanisms by which this can be done.
490Alternatively,
491.Nm
492will prompt for the user's password if
493.Fl h Ar 0
494is given, nominating
495.Em stdin
496as the file descriptor on which to read the password.
497Note that this password will be read only once and is intended
498for use by a script rather than for interactive use.
499If you wish to have new password confirmation along the lines of
500.Xr passwd 1 ,
501this must be implemented as part of an interactive script that calls
502.Nm .
503.Pp
504If a value of
505.Ql \&-
506is given as the argument
507.Ar fd ,
508then the password will be set to
509.Ql \&* ,
510rendering the account inaccessible via password-based login.
511.It Fl H Ar fd
512Read an encrypted password string from the specified file descriptor.
513This is like
514.Fl h ,
515but the password should be supplied already encrypted in a form
516suitable for writing directly to the password database.
517.El
518.Pp
519It is possible to use
520.Ar useradd
521to create a new account that duplicates an existing user id.
522While this is normally considered an error and will be rejected, the
523.Fl o
524option overrides the check for duplicates and allows the duplication of
525the user id.
526This may be useful if you allow the same user to login under
527different contexts (different group allocations, different home
528directory, different shell) while providing basically the same
529permissions for access to the user's files in each account.
530.Pp
531The
532.Ar useradd
533command also has the ability to set new user and group defaults by using the
534.Fl D
535option.
536Instead of adding a new user,
537.Nm
538writes a new set of defaults to its configuration file,
539.Pa /etc/pw.conf .
540When using the
541.Fl D
542option, you must not use either
543.Fl n Ar name
544or
545.Fl u Ar uid
546or an error will result.
547Use of
548.Fl D
549changes the meaning of several command line switches in the
550.Ar useradd
551command.
552These are:
553.Bl -tag -width "-G grouplist"
554.It Fl D
555Set default values in
556.Pa /etc/pw.conf
557configuration file, or a different named configuration file if the
558.Fl C Ar config
559option is used.
560.It Fl b Ar dir
561Set the root directory in which user home directories are created.
562The default value for this is
563.Pa /home ,
564but it may be set elsewhere as desired.
565.It Fl e Ar days
566Set the default account expiration period in days.
567Unlike use without
568.Fl D ,
569the argument must be numeric, which specifies the number of days after creation when
570the account is to expire.
571A value of 0 suppresses automatic calculation of the expiry date.
572.It Fl p Ar days
573Set the default password expiration period in days.
574.It Fl g Ar group
575Set the default group for new users.
576If a blank group is specified using
577.Fl g Ar \&"" ,
578then new users will be allocated their own private primary group
579with the same name as their login name.
580If a group is supplied, either its name or uid may be given as an argument.
581.It Fl G Ar grouplist
582Set the default groups in which new users are granted membership.
583This is a separate set of groups from the primary group, and you should avoid
584nominating the same group as both primary and extra groups.
585In other words, these extra groups determine membership in groups
586.Em other than
587the primary group.
588.Ar grouplist
589is a comma-separated list of group names or ids, and are always
590stored in
591.Pa /etc/pw.conf
592by their symbolic names.
593.It Fl L Ar class
594This option sets the default login class for new users.
595.It Fl k Ar dir
596Set the default
597.Em skeleton
598directory, from which prototype shell and other initialization files are copied when
599.Nm
600creates a user's home directory.
601.It Xo
602.Fl u Ar min , Ns Ar max ,
603.Fl i Ar min , Ns Ar max
604.Xc
605These options set the minimum and maximum user and group ids allocated for new accounts
606and groups created by
607.Nm .
608The default values for each is 1000 minimum and 32000 maximum.
609.Ar min
610and
611.Ar max
612are both numbers, where max must be greater than min, and both must be between 0
613and 32767.
614In general, user and group ids less than 100 are reserved for use by the system,
615and numbers greater than 32000 may also be reserved for special purposes (used by
616some system daemons).
617.It Fl w Ar method
618The
619.Fl w
620option sets the default method used to set passwords for newly created user accounts.
621.Ar method
622is one of:
623.Pp
624.Bl -tag -width random -offset indent -compact
625.It no
626disable login on newly created accounts
627.It yes
628force the password to be the account name
629.It none
630force a blank password
631.It random
632generate a random password
633.El
634.Pp
635The
636.Ql \&random
637or
638.Ql \&no
639methods are the most secure; in the former case,
640.Nm
641generates a password and prints it to stdout, which is suitable where you issue
642users with passwords to access their accounts rather than having the user nominate
643their own (possibly poorly chosen) password.
644The
645.Ql \&no
646method requires that the superuser use
647.Xr passwd 1
648to render the account accessible with a password.
649.It Fl y Ar path
650This sets the pathname of the database used by
651.Tn NIS
652if you are not sharing
653the information from
654.Pa /etc/master.passwd
655directly with
656.Tn NIS .
657You should only set this option for
658.Tn NIS
659servers.
660.El
661.Pp
662The
663.Ar userdel
664command has only three valid options.
665The
666.Fl n Ar name
667and
668.Fl u Ar uid
669options have already been covered above.
670The additional option is:
671.Bl -tag -width "-G grouplist"
672.It Fl r
673This tells
674.Nm
675to remove the user's home directory and all of its contents.
676The
677.Nm
678utility errs on the side of caution when removing files from the system.
679Firstly, it will not do so if the uid of the account being removed is also used by
680another account on the system, and the 'home' directory in the password file is
681a valid path that commences with the character
682.Ql \&/ .
683Secondly, it will only remove files and directories that are actually owned by
684the user, or symbolic links owned by anyone under the user's home directory.
685Finally, after deleting all contents owned by the user only empty directories
686will be removed.
687If any additional cleanup work is required, this is left to the administrator.
688.El
689.Pp
690Mail spool files and crontabs are always removed when an account is deleted as these
691are unconditionally attached to the user name.
692Jobs queued for processing by
693.Ar at
694are also removed if the user's uid is unique and not also used by another account on the
695system.
696.Pp
697The
698.Ar usershow
699command allows viewing of an account in one of two formats.
700By default, the format is identical to the format used in
701.Pa /etc/master.passwd
702with the password field replaced with a
703.Ql \&* .
704If the
705.Fl P
706option is used, then
707.Nm
708outputs the account details in a more human readable form.
709If the
710.Fl 7
711option is used, the account details are shown in v7 format.
712The
713.Fl a
714option lists all users currently on file.
715Using
716.Fl F
717forces
718.Nm
719to print the details of an account even if it does not exist.
720.Pp
721The command
722.Ar usernext
723returns the next available user and group ids separated by a colon.
724This is normally of interest only to interactive scripts or front-ends
725that use
726.Nm .
727.Sh GROUP OPTIONS
728The
729.Fl C
730and
731.Fl q
732options (explained at the start of the previous section) are available
733with the group manipulation commands.
734Other common options to all group-related commands are:
735.Bl -tag -width "-m newmembers"
736.It Fl n Ar name
737Specify the group name.
738.It Fl g Ar gid
739Specify the group numeric id.
740.Pp
741As with the account name and id fields, you will usually only need
742to supply one of these, as the group name implies the uid and vice
743versa.
744You will only need to use both when setting a specific group id
745against a new group or when changing the uid of an existing group.
746.It Fl M Ar memberlist
747This option provides an alternative way to add existing users to a
748new group (in groupadd) or replace an existing membership list (in
749groupmod).
750.Ar memberlist
751is a comma separated list of valid and existing user names or uids.
752.It Fl m Ar newmembers
753Similar to
754.Fl M ,
755this option allows the
756.Em addition
757of existing users to a group without replacing the existing list of
758members.
759Login names or user ids may be used, and duplicate users are
760silently eliminated.
761.El
762.Pp
763.Ar groupadd
764also has a
765.Fl o
766option that allows allocation of an existing group id to a new group.
767The default action is to reject an attempt to add a group, and this option overrides
768the check for duplicate group ids.
769There is rarely any need to duplicate a group id.
770.Pp
771The
772.Ar groupmod
773command adds one additional option:
774.Pp
775.Bl -tag -width "-m newmembers"
776.It Fl l Ar name
777This option allows changing of an existing group name to
778.Ql \&name .
779The new name must not already exist, and any attempt to duplicate an existing group
780name will be rejected.
781.El
782.Pp
783Options for
784.Ar groupshow
785are the same as for
786.Ar usershow ,
787with the
788.Fl g Ar gid
789replacing
790.Fl u Ar uid
791to specify the group id.
792The
793.Fl 7
794option does not apply to the
795.Ar groupshow
796command.
797.Pp
798The command
799.Ar groupnext
800returns the next available group id on standard output.
801.Sh USER LOCKING
802The
803.Nm
804utility
805supports a simple password locking mechanism for users; it works by
806prepending the string
807.Ql *LOCKED*
808to the beginning of the password field in
809.Pa master.passwd
810to prevent successful authentication.
811.Pp
812The
813.Ar lock
814and
815.Ar unlock
816commands take a user name or uid of the account to lock or unlock,
817respectively.
818The
819.Fl V ,
820.Fl C ,
821and
822.Fl q
823options as described above are accepted by these commands.
824.Sh NOTES
825For a summary of options available with each command, you can use
826.Dl pw [command] help
827For example,
828.Dl pw useradd help
829lists all available options for the useradd operation.
830.Pp
831The
832.Nm
833utility allows 8-bit characters in the passwd GECOS field (user's full name,
834office, work and home phone number subfields), but disallows them in
835user login and group names.
836Use 8-bit characters with caution, as connection to the Internet will
837require that your mail transport program supports 8BITMIME, and will
838convert headers containing 8-bit characters to 7-bit quoted-printable
839format.
840.Xr sendmail 8
841does support this.
842Use of 8-bit characters in the GECOS field should be used in
843conjunction with the user's default locale and character set
844and should not be implemented without their use.
845Using 8-bit characters may also affect other
846programs that transmit the contents of the GECOS field over the
847Internet, such as
848.Xr fingerd 8 ,
849and a small number of TCP/IP clients, such as IRC, where full names
850specified in the passwd file may be used by default.
851.Pp
852The
853.Nm
854utility writes a log to the
855.Pa /var/log/userlog
856file when actions such as user or group additions or deletions occur.
857The location of this logfile can be changed in
858.Xr pw.conf 5 .
859.Sh FILES
860.Bl -tag -width /etc/master.passwd.new -compact
861.It Pa /etc/master.passwd
862The user database
863.It Pa /etc/passwd
864A Version 7 format password file
865.It Pa /etc/login.conf
866The user capabilities database
867.It Pa /etc/group
868The group database
869.It Pa /etc/master.passwd.new
870Temporary copy of the master password file
871.It Pa /etc/passwd.new
872Temporary copy of the Version 7 password file
873.It Pa /etc/group.new
874Temporary copy of the group file
875.It Pa /etc/pw.conf
876Pw default options file
877.It Pa /var/log/userlog
878User/group modification logfile
879.El
880.Sh EXIT STATUS
881The
882.Nm
883utility returns EXIT_SUCCESS on successful operation, otherwise
884.Nm
885returns one of the
886following exit codes defined by
887.Xr sysexits 3
888as follows:
889.Bl -tag -width xxxx
890.It EX_USAGE
891.Bl -bullet -compact
892.It
893Command line syntax errors (invalid keyword, unknown option).
894.El
895.It EX_NOPERM
896.Bl -bullet -compact
897.It
898Attempting to run one of the update modes as non-root.
899.El
900.It EX_OSERR
901.Bl -bullet -compact
902.It
903Memory allocation error.
904.It
905Read error from password file descriptor.
906.El
907.It EX_DATAERR
908.Bl -bullet -compact
909.It
910Bad or invalid data provided or missing on the command line or
911via the password file descriptor.
912.It
913Attempted to remove, rename root account or change its uid.
914.El
915.It EX_OSFILE
916.Bl -bullet -compact
917.It
918Skeleton directory is invalid or does not exist.
919.It
920Base home directory is invalid or does not exist.
921.It
922Invalid or non-existent shell specified.
923.El
924.It EX_NOUSER
925.Bl -bullet -compact
926.It
927User, user id, group or group id specified does not exist.
928.It
929User or group recorded, added, or modified unexpectedly disappeared.
930.El
931.It EX_SOFTWARE
932.Bl -bullet -compact
933.It
934No more group or user ids available within specified range.
935.El
936.It EX_IOERR
937.Bl -bullet -compact
938.It
939Unable to rewrite configuration file.
940.It
941Error updating group or user database files.
942.It
943Update error for passwd or group database files.
944.El
945.It EX_CONFIG
946.Bl -bullet -compact
947.It
948No base home directory configured.
949.El
950.El
951.Sh SEE ALSO
952.Xr chpass 1 ,
953.Xr passwd 1 ,
954.Xr group 5 ,
955.Xr login.conf 5 ,
956.Xr passwd 5 ,
957.Xr pw.conf 5 ,
958.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 ,
959.Xr vipw 8
960.Sh HISTORY
961The
962.Nm
963utility was written to mimic many of the options used in the SYSV
964.Em shadow
965support suite, but is modified for passwd and group fields specific to
966the
967.Bx 4.4
968operating system, and combines all of the major elements
969into a single command.
970