gpasswd(1)gpasswd(1)NAMEgpasswd - change group password
SYNOPSISgpasswd [-r|-l|-u] [group]
DESCRIPTIONgpasswd changes passwords for group accounts. Only an administrator may
change the password for any group. The used hash algorithmus is defined
by the value of GROUP_CRYPT or, if not specified, CRYPT from
/etc/default/passwd. If not configured, the traditinal des algorithmus
is used.
OPTIONS-r Remove group password.
-l A system administrator can lock the password of the specified
group.
-u A system administrator can unlock the password of the specified
group, if the group is not passwordless afterwards (it will not
unlock a group that has only "!" as a password).
FILES
/etc/group - group account information /etc/default/passwd - default
values for password hash
SEE ALSOgroup(5), groupadd(8), groupdel(8), groupmod(8)AUTHOR
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
pwdutils July 2006 gpasswd(1)