cppw(8)

cppw8

Copy with locking the given file to the password or group file

Usage

cppw [-h] [-s] password_file

cpgr [-h] [-s] group_file

Overview

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.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0–12

Author

cppw and cpgr were written by Stephen Frost, based on vipw and vigr written by Guy Maor.

From passwd 1:4.13+dfsg1-1+deb12u2 in Debian 12 (Bookworm). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.