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 cpgrwill 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.