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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers hidden files Post 302487669 by lhareigh890 on Thursday 13th of January 2011 07:13:37 AM
Old 01-13-2011
thank you for all the replies. can someone advise me what hidden files are? are they important? im confused somehow
 

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AFPPASSWD(1)						      General Commands Manual						      AFPPASSWD(1)

NAME
afppasswd - netatalk password maintenance utility SYNOPSIS
afppasswd [ -acfn ] [ -p passwd file ] [ -u minimum uid ] DESCRIPTION
afppasswd allows the maintenance of afppasswd files created by netatalk for use by some User Authentication Modules (UAMs) afppasswd can either be called by root with parameters, or can be called by local system users with no parameters to change their pass- words. EXAMPLE
Local user changing their own password: example% afppasswd Enter NEW AFP password: (hidden) Enter NEW AFP password again: (hidden) afppasswd: updated password. OPTIONS
-a Add a new user to the afppasswd file. -c Create and/or initialize afppasswd file or specific user. -f Force the current action. -p path Path to afppasswd file. -n If cracklib support is built into netatalk this option will cause cracklib checking to be disabled, if the superuser does not want to have the password run against the cracklib dictionary. -u minimum uid This is the minimum user id (uid) that afppasswd will use when creating users. SEE ALSO
afpd(8), atalkd(8). netatalk 1.5 03 Aug 2000 AFPPASSWD(1)
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