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Diffstat (limited to 'login-utils/passwd.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | login-utils/passwd.1 | 9 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/login-utils/passwd.1 b/login-utils/passwd.1 index db44aa8e9..b6a25a3f6 100644 --- a/login-utils/passwd.1 +++ b/login-utils/passwd.1 @@ -34,10 +34,8 @@ reasons to choose a non-conformant password. The two argument form gives the .IR user " the " password -stated as the second argument. This may be useful when giving many -users an initial generated password. But it can also be extremely -dangerous. A simple script bug might change to root password to -something unknown. +stated as the second argument. Note that this password will +be visible to people doing `ps' or so. Avoid this form. Giving an empty string as the second argument erases the password for the user, but only in combination with the @@ -111,6 +109,3 @@ Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk). .br Martin Schulze (joey@infodrom.north.de) with extensive rewriting and improving done. -.br -.SH MAINTAINER -Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@math.uio.no) |