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Server password files

Server password files define sets of users and contain the encrypted password associated with each user. Different protection set-ups may use different password files, specifying a ServerID identifier to differentiate between a number of different realms on the same machine. Duplicated user names contained in different password files need not necessarily be related to one another.

The CERN server password files are maintained with the htadm program, which is part of the server distribution. This program is used to perform a number of different operations, as follows:

To create a new password file:

    htadm -create  password-file

To add a new user to a password file:

    htadm -adduser password-file [username [password [realname]]]

To change a user's password:

    htadm -passwd  password-file [username [password]]

To check a user's password:

    htadm -check   password-file [username [password]]

To delete a user from a password file:

    htadm -deluser password-file [username]

The htadm program prompts for any optional parameters that have been omitted, and suppresses the echoing of characters when passwords are entered.

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