PWUPDATE(8)

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💖 PWUPDATE(8) 💖

okay bestie, gather round — this is the manual page for pwupdate, a lil helper from the NYS YP Server era. She's tiny, she's specific, and she is NOT for you to run yourself, we'll get to that 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

pwupdate — updates the passwd and shadow NIS map 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/usr/lib/yp/pwupdate [shadow]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the tea 🍓: pwupdate gets invoked by rpc.yppasswdd(8) after a password gets changed, and its whole job is to update the passwd and shadow NIS map. That's it. That's the gig. 👑

Never run it by hand. Like, ever. I'm so serious bestie 😭 she's not a "just try it and see" kind of program, she has exactly one caller and it's not you.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • shadow — normally only the passwd map gets updated. Pass this and pwupdate will update the shadow map too. slay ✨

✨ FILES ✨

  • /etc/passwd
  • /etc/shadow

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Olaf Kirch <okir@monad.swb.de>, Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> 🎀

and that's the whole page, no cap 💖 this lil icon is from the NYS YP Server crew, dated way back in Jan 1998, with the page itself stamped 12/31/2020 — so yeah, she's got main character energy AND vintage energy at the same time 🌸 stay safe out there and pls don't hand-run the password updater, mwah 💅✨

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