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Many enviroments are switching from the Network Information Service (NIS) system over to the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for sharing their network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group information) to all of the machines on the network. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). This package implements several utilites that provide functional equivalents to utilities from the yp-tools and util-linux-ng package.

/usr/bin/passwd offers a "safe way" for root to edit /etc/passwd (or shadow). If setuid it allows regular users to change passwd without asking root to do changes for them. (note: does have learning curve on args to choose) gnupasswd - gnu change user password gnugpasswd - gnu change group password gnupasswd(1) has a goal to work with older login.c/linux and some newer too, also "getpwent" (any glibc). or help convert. gnupassd does pass only: leaves all else alone (compat). ...

netgradm is a command line tool used to manage a local copy of the /etc/netgroup file.

A little command-line tool and a little php module to change kerberos passwords, even on a Active Directory server, even already expired ones. It runs on Linux, no additional configuration (or access) to the kerberos server is needed.

It provides a PAM and NSS module for PostgreSQL to completely replace the user/group/shadow flatfile. Maintenance tools are developed by the bofhms project, code has been moved to http://www.pgfoundry.org/projects/sysauth/

Fingerprint Laboratory - a portable and layered package of libraries and tools for academic research and productive use that allows people to easily integrate Automatic Fingerprint Recognition technology into their software or system with little know-how.

Perl tools for keeping an LDAP directory service in sync with NIS or any other text based naming service.

pam_ldap extensions and tools. Here you will find several patches for pam_ldap adding features like time-based login, restriction of login-count and comand-line tools to maintain useraccounts.

DS Password Tools are a pair of command line tools for changing passwords on Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server (versions 10.2.x) that make use of the Directory Services API. Unlike the included passwd program, these tools are compatible with Password Server.

Replacement for Courier's authlib facility. Currently, we have a drop-in replacement for courier's authldap daemon to provide more flexible searching options.

This is a set of tools to manipulate the chap-secrets files, utilized by ppp to CHAP based authentication. It aims to be similar to these tools related with passwd, but manipulating the text based chap-secrets files.