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auth(5) File Formats Manual auth(5)

Name
auth - auth database

Description
The database is a repository of security-relevant information about each user of the system. This database contains the encrypted password
associated with the user's account in addition to a list of assorted capabilities. The database is stored as an database in the files and
Records are retrieved with the library routine. Access to the database is restricted to the superuser and members of the group

Auth records may be converted to an ASCII representation whose format is:
1000:4KvidFYwovnwp3j8lll78dC1:1920129:3600:2678400:03:0:1000:0:00:00
The first field is the UID of the entry that is used as the key into the database. Then follows:

Encrypted Password
This is the user's encrypted password. Whether this password or the one from the file is actually used is determined by the
security level that the system is running at.

Password Modification Time
This is the time(2) the password was last set.

Minimum Password Lifetime
This is the minimum number of seconds which must elapse between setting passwords.

Maximum Password Lifetime
This is the maximum period of time for which the password will be valid.

Account Mask These are capabilities pertaining to the account itself. They are:

1 A_ENABLE: this account is enabled.
2 A_CHANGE_PASSWORD: The user can change his or her password.
4 A_ENTER_PASSWORD: The user is not required to use machine-generated passwords.

Audit ID Positive integer identifier used in generating audit records for the user.

Audit Control See the reference page, SET_APROC_CNTL section for more information.

Audit Mask Determines which events will be audited for the user. See the and reference pages for more information.

Restrictions
Only the superuser and members of the group may read information from the auth database. Only the superuser may modify the auth database.

Files
See Also
audcntl(2), getauthuid(3), getpwent(3), edauth(8)

auth(5)