PWDIFF

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 25 June 1988
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NAME

pwdiff - find differences in password files

SYNOPSIS

pwdiff file1 file2 file3 ...

DESCRIPTION

This program compares multiple password files and reports on uid or name conflicts that would prevent the files from being merged.

For example, if uid 27 is don in file1 and susan in file2, this will be detected.

The program also notes syntactically incorrect lines and nicknames (the user name does not match the home directory). Since many low uids are nicknames (root, uucp, etc.) a compile-time constant controls a cut-off below which nicknames are ignored. As distributed, uids below 20 are not checked for nicknames.

AUTHOR

Don Libes, National Bureau of Standards

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