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/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). ...

A fork of nss_db, modified to work on Solaris as well as Linux. This provides an alternative location for storing configuration information used by the Name Service Switch libraries, and may be used to supplement user, group and other information in a Berkeley DB. The Berkeley DB NSS module provides an alternative means for storing configuration information traditionally kept in several plain-text files in /etc (e.g. /etc/passwd). The module uses the Berkeley DB Library to store this...

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

Database PAM is based on the pam_mysql project with several additional features. Features include arbitary query strings into which the username and passwords are substitued and encrypted passwords so that plain text isn't sent to the database. Currently

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.