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privatepw(1)						      General Commands Manual						      privatepw(1)

NAME
privatepw - Change WU-FTPD Group Access File Information SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
If a site supports the SITE GROUP and SITE GPASS commands, it is necessary to be able to add, delete and list enhanced access group infor- mation. The utility is used to update this information in the group access file This is meant as an administrative tool and not to be run by the general user population. This command requires read/write permission to the appropriate ftpgroups file. Options In the options defined below, accessgroup is an alphanumeric name specified to a group. Please see the section for details. Create a new file. Delete the specified accessgroup information from the ftpgroups file. Use the specified ftpgroups file for all updates. If this option is not specified by default it takes the file. Set the real system group (defined in to the accessgroup specified. This is valid only when adding a new accessgroup or changing the password of an exist- ing accessgroup. List the contents of the appropriate ftpgroups file. This option causes the program to display copyright and version information, then terminate. Background After user logs in, the SITE GROUP and SITE GPASS commands may be used to specify an enhanced access group and associated password. If the group name and password are valid, the user becomes (via a member of the group list in the group access file The format of the group access file is: where access_group_name is an arbitrary (alphanumeric + punctuation) string. encrypted_password is the password encrypted via crypt(3), exactly like in real_group_name is the name of a valid group listed in AUTHOR
was developed by the Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. SEE ALSO
ftpgroups(4), ftpaccess(4). privatepw(1)

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ftpgroups(4)															      ftpgroups(4)

NAME
ftpgroups - FTP Server enhanced group access file SYNOPSIS
/etc/ftpd/ftpgroups The ftpgroups file contains the enhanced group access information. After login, if the ftpaccess(4) file includes private yes, the user may use the SITE GROUP and SITE GPASS commands to specify an enhanced access group and a password for that group. If the access group name and password are valid, the FTP Server executes setegid(2) to make the user a member of the real group listed in the ftpgroups file. The format for the ftpgroups file is: accessgroup:encrypted_password:real_group_name The fields are defined as follows: accessgroup An arbitrary string of alphanumeric and punctuation characters. encrypted_password The group password encrypted exactly like in /etc/shadow. real_group_name The name of a valid group returned by getgrnam(3C). The privatepw utility is an administrative tool to add, delete and list enhanced access group information in the ftpgroups file. See pri- vatepw(1M). Lines that begin with a # sign are treated as comment lines and are ignored. /etc/ftpd/ftpgroups /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWftpr | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ in.ftpd(1M), privatepw(1M), setegid(2), getgrnam(3C), ftpaccess(4), group(4), shadow(4), attributes(5) 1 May 2003 ftpgroups(4)
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