passwd.local(4) — Reliant UNIX 5.44c4

passwd.local(4)                                             passwd.local(4)

NAME
     passwd.local - selection list for global user entries

SYNOPSIS
     /etc/passwd.local

DESCRIPTION
     The /etc/passwd.local file is used from the passwd.byname NIS server
     map when updating the local /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files, if the
     new procedure for global user administration (GLOBALPW=new in
     /etc/default/inet) has been selected.

     The entries in /etc/group.passwd have the same structure as those in
     /etc/passwd:

     username:password:usernumber:groupnumber: \

     comment:homedirectory:shell

     By means of entries in /etc/passwd.local, global entries can be

     -  transferred to the local /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files. These
        entries begin with "+user_name".

     -  excluded from the transfer. These entries begin with a "-user_name"
        and are not transferred if they are listed in a subsequent "+"
        entry. Conversely, preceding "+" entries are not affected by this.

     -  transferred with modified attributes. These entries begin with a
        "+user_name"; the attributes specified below are not empty however,
        and overwrite the attributes of the global entry. The exception
        here is the field user number, which cannot be overwritten.

     The name of a network group can also be specified as a user name, but
     must be identified with a leading "@", i. e. the name "@manuals" means
     all users in the network group "manuals".

     Warning:

     In contrast to user groups, network groups are not listed in the
     /etc/group file but in the netgroup* NIS maps on the server!

     Global entries for whose user name or number an entry already exists
     in the local /etc/passwd file, are not transferred to the /etc/passwd
     file.

     Following every update of /etc/passwd, it is recorded in the
     /var/yp/ypusers file whether an entry in /etc/passwd is local or glo-
     bal. All global entries that were transferred to /etc/passwd and
     /etc/shadow at the last update are entered here.





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passwd.local(4)                                             passwd.local(4)

FILES
     /etc/group

     /var/yp/suppressrebuild

     /var/yp/ypgrps

SEE ALSO
     map2system(1M), newgroup(1M), ypinit(1M).













































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