CPPW
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 7 Apr 2005
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NAME
cppw, cpgr - copy with locking the given file to the password or group file
SYNOPSIS
cppw [
-h] [
-s] password_file
cpgr [
-h] [
-s] group_file
DESCRIPTION
cppw and
cpgr
will copy, with locking, the given file to
/etc/passwd and
/etc/group, respectively.
With the
-s flag, they will copy the shadow versions of those files,
/etc/shadow and
/etc/gshadow, respectively.
With the -h flag, the commands display a short help message and exit
silently.
SEE ALSO
vipw(8),
vigr(8),
group(5),
passwd(5),
shadow(5),
gshadow(5)
AUTHOR
cppw and
cpgr were written by Stephen Frost, based on
vipw and
vigr written by Guy Maor.