htadm
program which is
a part ot CERN daemon distribution.
htadm -adduser
passwordfile [
username [
password [
realname]]]
htadm -deluser
passwordfile [
username]
htadm -passwd
passwordfile [
username [
password]]
htadm -check
passwordfile [
username [
password]]
Correct
or Incorrect
to standard output.
Also indicates password correctness by a zero return value.
htadm
to add new users to the actual Unix
password file /etc/passwd,
entries written by
htadm
are missing some necessary fields to Unix.
htadm
destroys the password from command line as soon as
possible so that it is very unlikely to see somebody's password by
looking at the process listing on the machine (with ps
,
for example).
AL 10 January 1994