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Description: system login tools
This package provides some required infrastructure for logins and for
changing effective user or group IDs, including:
* login, the program that invokes a user shell on a virtual terminal;
* nologin, a dummy shell for disabled user accounts;
* su, a basic tool for executing commands as root or another user.
Homepage: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow
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Description: tools for reading manual pages
This package provides the man command, the primary way of examining the
system help files (manual pages). Other utilities provided include the
whatis and apropos commands for searching the manual page database, the
manpath utility for determining the manual page search path, and the
maintenance utilities mandb, catman and zsoelim. man-db uses the groff
suite of programs to format and display the manual pages.
Homepage: https://nongnu.org/man-db/
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Description: change and administer password and group data
This package includes passwd, chsh, chfn, and many other programs to
maintain password and group data.
Shadow passwords are supported. See /usr/share/doc/passwd/README.Debian
Homepage: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow
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Description: Graphical package manager
Synaptic is a graphical package management tool based on GTK+ and APT.
Synaptic enables you to install, upgrade and remove software packages in
a user friendly way.
Besides these basic functions the following features are provided:
* Search and filter the list of available packages
* Perform smart system upgrades
* Fix broken package dependencies
* Edit the list of used repositories (sources.list)
* Download the latest changelog of a package
* Configure packages through the debconf system
* Browse all available documentation related to a package (dwww is required)
Homepage: https://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/
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