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Man Page: pwupdate

Operating Environment: suse

Section: 8

PWUPDATE(8)							   NYS YP Server						       PWUPDATE(8)

NAME
pwupdate - updates passwd and shadow NIS map
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/yp/pwupdate [shadow]
DESCRIPTION
pwupdate is invoked by rpc.yppasswdd(8) after changing the password and it should update the passwd and shadow NIS map. Never run it by hand.
OPTIONS
shadow Normally, only the passwd map will be updated. With this option, pwupdate will update the shadow map, too.
FILES
/etc/passwd, /etc/shadow
SEE ALSO
rpc.yppasswdd(8), ypserv(8)
AUTHOR
Olaf Kirch <okir@monad.swb.de>, Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Jan 1998 10/01/2007 PWUPDATE(8)
Related Man Pages
rpc.yppasswdd(8) - redhat
rpc.yppasswdd(8) - debian
vigr(8) - suse
vipw(8) - suse
pwconv(1m) - sunos
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