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Man Page: cppw

Operating Environment: linux

Section: 8

CPPW(8) 						      System Manager's Manual							   CPPW(8)

NAME
cppw, cpgr - copy with locking the given file to the password or group file
SYNOPSIS
cppw [-h] [-s] password_file cpgr [-h] [-s] group_file
DESCRIPTION
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.
SEE ALSO
vipw(8), vigr(8), group(5), passwd(5), shadow(5), gshadow(5)
AUTHOR
cppw and cpgr were written by Stephen Frost, based on vipw and vigr written by Guy Maor. 7 Apr 2005 CPPW(8)
Related Man Pages
vipw(8) - linux
vipw(8) - debian
vigr(8) - debian
vigr(8) - suse
newgrp(1) - minix
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