CPPW(8)

📦 version 4.13, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💖 CPPW — the manual page but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, you found the CPPW(8) page and I'm so proud of you. this is the System Manager's Manual entry for cppw and its lil sibling cpgr, and we're gonna get you fluent in it, no cap. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

cppw, cpgr — copy with locking the given file to the password or group file

like, that's the whole thing. you hand it a file, it locks stuff properly, and it drops your file where the passwd/group file lives. very demure, very mindful file management fr fr. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cppw [-h] [-s] password_file
cpgr [-h] [-s] group_file

two commands, one vibe. cppw gets a password_file, cpgr gets a group_file, and both of them take the same two optional flags. iconic behavior honestly. 🦋

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea, bestie:

cppw and cpgr will copy, with locking, the given file to /etc/passwd and /etc/group, respectively. locking is the key word here — they don't just yeet your file in there and hope for the best, they do it properly so nothing gets corrupted mid-write. main character energy. 👑

and if you pass the -s flag? they will copy the shadow versions of those files instead — so /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow, respectively. that's the spicy secret version of the files where the actual password hashes live. 🫣

and if you pass the -h flag? the commands display a short help message and then exit silently. that's it. no drama, no extra output, just a quick lil "here's how you use me" and they're gone. lowkey polite of them. 🙈

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the whole friend group, basically. go say hi. 🫶

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

cppw and cpgr were written by Stephen Frost, based on vipw and vigr written by Guy Maor.

shoutout to the devs, they ate and left no crumbs. 🍓

ngl bestie, if you're touching /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow or /etc/gshadow you are highkey in the danger zone of your system. these files are the whole personality of your machine's auth. be careful, be locked, be correct. 😭🔥

and that's the whole page, bestie!! it's giving System Manager's Manual, dated 7 Apr 2005, and you now know it better than the people who skimmed it. slay, go forth, lock your files. 💖✨🎀🦋👑💅

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