03-18-2011
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What Operating System are you running? Do you have some sort of enhanced "tar"?
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..
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privatepw
privatepw(1M) System Administration Commands privatepw(1M)
NAME
privatepw - administer FTP Server enhanced group access file
SYNOPSIS
privatepw [-c] [-f ftpgroups] [-g real_group_name] accessgroup
privatepw -d [-f ftpgroups] accessgroup
privatepw -l [-f ftpgroups]
privatepw -V
DESCRIPTION
The privatepw utility is an administrative tool to add, delete and list enhanced access group information in the ftpgroups file. See ftp-
groups(4).
When privatepw is used without options, the help usage message is displayed. The privatepw utility prompts for a password when adding an
enhanced access group entry or modifiying an existing one.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported by the privatepw utility:
-c Create a new ftpgroups file for the specified accessgroup.
-d Delete information about the specified accessgroup from the ftpgroups file.
-f ftpgroups Use the specifed ftpgroups file for all updates.
-g group Set the real system group to the group specified. group is a valid group name returned by getgrnam(3C). If the real system
group is not supplied with the -g option when adding an ehanced access group entry, the privatepw utility prompts for it.
-l List the contents of the ftpgroups file.
-V Display program copyright and version information, then terminate.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
accessgroup The name of the enhanced access group to create or update It consists of an arbitrary string of alphanumeric and
punctuation characters. See ftpgroups(4).
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
FILES
/etc/ftpd/ftpgroups
/etc/group
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWftpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |External |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
in.ftpd(1M), getgrnam(3C), ftpgroups(4), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 1 May 2003 privatepw(1M)