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Package: passwd

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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Manual pages:

chage(1) chfn(1) chsh(1)
expiry(1) gpasswd(1) passwd(1)
gshadow(5) passwd(5) shadow(5)
subgid(5) subuid(5) chgpasswd(8)
chpasswd(8) groupadd(8) groupdel(8)
groupmod(8) grpck(8) grpconv(8)
grpunconv(8) newusers(8) pwck(8)
pwconv(8) pwunconv(8) shadowconfig(8)
useradd(8) userdel(8) usermod(8)
vigr(8) vipw(8)

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/passwd /usr/share/doc/passwd/examples

Other packages built from the same source:

login.defs

Manual page search:

CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD(3) CURLOPT_PROXY_KEYPASSWD(3) SSL_CTX_get_default_passwd_cb(3ssl)
SSL_CTX_get_default_passwd_cb_userdata(3ssl) SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb(3ssl) SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb_userdata(3ssl)
SSL_get_default_passwd_cb(3ssl) SSL_get_default_passwd_cb_userdata(3ssl) SSL_set_default_passwd_cb(3ssl)
SSL_set_default_passwd_cb_userdata(3ssl) chgpasswd(8) chpasswd(8)
fgetpwent_r(3) getpwent_r(3) gpasswd(1)
grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2(1) htpasswd(1) mkpasswd(1)
openssl-passwd(1ssl) pam_localuser(8) passwd(1)
passwd(1ssl) passwd(5) passwd2des(3)
pwhistory_helper(8) smbpasswd(5) smbpasswd(8)
update-passwd(8)

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