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Welcome to User Tools For Unix/Linux/BSD

What is usertools ?

It is our sincere hope that you find these tools as useful and sanity-saving as we have. It has long bothered us that no consistent set of simple user administration tools exists across the many different Unix-based and Unix-like operating systems. Even the simple task of determining whether or not a user has a valid account requires grepping the passwd file and eyeballing the text to see if it looks correct.

These tools were designed with the average ISP technician in mind. This
someone needs to add, maybe, twenty to one hundred users in one day, verify some passwords, change some passwords, remove some users, and temporarily disconnect accounts for non-payment. Many such technicians have the knowledge to hack apart the passwd and shadow files to accomplish this, and many do not.
Regardless of ability, hacking apart critical system databases is a
time-consuming and potentially dangerous task--especially on an active system.

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Project Members:

• Wireless Worlds (admin)