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System Administration Commands                      privatepw(1M)



NAME
     privatepw - administer FTP Server enhanced group access file

SYNOPSIS
     privatepw [-c] [-f ftpgroups] [-g real_group_name] accessgroup


     privatepw -d [-f ftpgroups] accessgroup


     privatepw -l [-f ftpgroups]


     privatepw -V


DESCRIPTION
     The privatepw utility is  an  administrative  tool  to  add,
     delete  and  list  enhanced  access group information in the
     ftpgroups file. See ftpgroups(4).


     When privatepw is used without options, the help usage  mes-
     sage is displayed. The privatepw utility prompts for a pass-
     word when adding an enhanced access group entry or  modifiy-
     ing an existing one.

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported by the  privatepw  util-
     ity:

     -c              Create a new ftpgroups file for  the  speci-
                     fied accessgroup.


     -d               Delete  information  about  the   specified
                     accessgroup from the ftpgroups file.


     -f ftpgroups     Use the specifed  ftpgroups  file  for  all
                     updates.


     -g group         Set the real  system  group  to  the  group
                     specified.  group  is  a  valid  group  name
                     returned by getgrnam(3C). If the real system
                     group  is  not  supplied  with the -g option
                     when adding an ehanced access  group  entry,
                     the  privatepw utility prompts for it.






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System Administration Commands                      privatepw(1M)



     -l               List the contents of the ftpgroups file.


     -V               Display  program  copyright   and   version
                     information, then terminate.


OPERANDS
     The following operands are supported:

     accessgroup    The name of  the  enhanced  access  group  to
                    create  or update It consists of an arbitrary
                    string of alphanumeric and punctuation  char-
                    acters. See ftpgroups(4).


EXIT STATUS
     The following exit values are returned:

     0     Successful completion.


     >0    An error occurred.


FILES
     /etc/ftpd/ftpgroups


     /etc/group


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | service/network/ftp         |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface Stability         | Volatile                    |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


SEE ALSO
     in.ftpd(1M), getgrnam(3C), ftpgroups(4), attributes(5)






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