OCPASSWD(8)

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version 1.5.0 · 10 versions
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💖 OCPASSWD — the ocpasswd girlies' guide 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to ocpasswd, aka the OpenConnect server password utility from the System Manager's Manual (section 8, so you know it's admin business 👑). Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

ocpasswd — OpenConnect server password utility

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ocpasswd [ -flag [value] | --option-name[[=| ]value] ]... username
fr fr, that bracket situation is just saying: you can stack flags, long options can take a value glued on with = or separated by a space, and you always end with a username. That's the vibe. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this program is the openconnect password (ocpasswd) utility. What does it do? It lets you generate and handle a 'plain' password file — the one ocserv uses. That's literally the whole job and it eats every time. 😌✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -c, --passwd=FILE — pick which password file you're working with. Only useful when you're not using the default location, bestie. The default is /etc/ocserv/ocpasswd. 🗂️
  • -g, --group — set the user's group name. Heads up though: groups that are just one single character, like '*' and 'x', get ignored. Not us. They're ignored. 🙈
  • -d, --delete — deletes the specified user from the password file. gone. poof. 💀
  • -l, --lock — prevents the specified user from logging in by locking their password. 🚫🔒
  • -u, --unlock — re-enables login for the specified user by unlocking their password. welcome back queen 👑🔓
  • -h, --help — display usage information and exit. your friendly lil helper 🫶
  • -v, --version — output version of program and exit. 📌

🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

  • 0 — successful program execution. slay. ✨
  • 1 — the operation failed or the command syntax was not valid. it's giving error energy 😭

🎀 FILES 🎀

The password format of ocpasswd is as follows:

username:groupname:encoded-password

And the crypt(3) encoding is used for the encoded-password. no cap, that's just how it be. 🔐

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Adding a user 🧚

$ ocpasswd -c ocpasswd my_username

Locking a user 🔒

$ ocpasswd -c ocpasswd -l my_username

Unlocking a user 🔓

$ ocpasswd -c ocpasswd -u my_username

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Written by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos. Many people have contributed to it. iconic collaborative behavior, honestly. 👏

🙈 REPORTING BUGS 🙈

Issue tracker: https://gitlab.com/openconnect/ocserv/-/issues

found a bug? not me ignoring it — go tell the tracker bestie 🫶

Copyright (C) 2013-2024 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos and others, all rights reserved. This program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. 📜✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

ocserv(8), occtl(8)

and that's the whole page, babe 💖 this was the OCPASSWD(8) page from the System Manager's Manual, dated June 2026 — go forth and manage those passwords responsibly, main character 🦋🌸💅

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