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RevisionDateAuthorComments
 1.34  01-Sep-2019  sevan passwd(5) was in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man51.pdf
 1.33  03-Jul-2017  wiz branches: 1.33.6; 1.33.8;
Remove workaround for ancient HTML generation code.
 1.32  18-Oct-2016  uwe branches: 1.32.6;
Xref to useradd(8) by its official name.
 1.31  09-Jul-2013  njoly branches: 1.31.10;
Fix sendmail section (8 -> 1) in xrefs.
 1.30  22-Apr-2012  wiz branches: 1.30.2;
Sort sections, sort SEE ALSO.
 1.29  21-Apr-2012  roy Add capfile(5) to describe the termcap format.
Adjust various man pages and other documentation to point to capfile(5)
instead of termcap(5).
Remove getcap(3) as curses hasn't been building it for a long time.
Punt wrterm.c as tset no longer uses it.
 1.28  13-May-2009  wiz branches: 1.28.6;
New sentence, new line.
 1.27  21-Jun-2007  ginsbach Add newgrp(1) cross-reference.
 1.26  23-Dec-2006  wiz Sort sections.
 1.25  26-Nov-2006  jmmv Mention the maximum line length allowed in the passwd file.
Inspired by PR misc/34664.
 1.24  05-Sep-2005  hubertf Mention pwhash(1) in a few places,
suggested in PR 31125 by Stefan Schumacher.
 1.23  13-Oct-2003  agc Move Jason Downs's code from a 4-clause to a 3-clause licence by
removing the advertising clause. Diffs provided in PR 22410 by Joel
Baker, confirmed to the board by Jason Downs.

With additional thanks to Jason Thorpe.
 1.22  07-Aug-2003  agc Move UCB-licensed code from 4-clause to 3-clause licence.

Patches provided by Joel Baker in PR 22309, verified by myself.
 1.21  01-May-2003  uebayasi Typos, mostly a -> an.

Reviewed by: grant
 1.20  13-Feb-2002  ross Generate <>& symbolically. I'm avoiding .../dist/... directories for now.
 1.19  12-Dec-2001  wiz Grammar improvement, and note passwd.conf.5.
 1.18  08-Sep-2001  wiz Whitespace/punctuation fixes.
 1.17  17-Nov-2000  lukem - provide example of line syntax
- use Em instead of Ar
- use Dq as appropriate
 1.16  02-Aug-2000  pooka s/master.password/master.passwd/

from misc/10737 by Brian Stark
 1.15  14-Jan-2000  mjl branches: 1.15.4;
Updated to cater for login classes.
 1.14  16-Dec-1999  abs Clarify difference between master.passwd and passwd
 1.13  28-Oct-1999  is Document what the & character does in the Gecos field.
By Greg A. Woods (PR 8655).
 1.12  16-Jan-1999  lukem branches: 1.12.2; 1.12.4;
reference nsswitch.conf(5) as necessary
change references from YP to NIS.
 1.11  05-Sep-1998  kleink Use UTC instead of GMT, and rearrange the wording a bit.
 1.10  28-Apr-1998  fair Change occurrences of "UNIX" to .Ux or .At as appropriate.
 1.9  06-Feb-1998  perry macroize BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and misc cleanup
 1.8  12-Nov-1997  mrg add missing .Nm calls and MLINKS. from spz@serpens.swb.de
 1.7  05-Nov-1997  fair Correct error and .Nm clarification per PR#4410.
 1.6  16-Aug-1997  lukem branches: 1.6.2;
* -1 is a special value for pw_change - it forces password change at next login.
* highlight reminder of impending change/expire in the 14 days prior to the
event.
 1.5  27-Jun-1997  lukem use a tagged .Bl rather than a .Bd with tab separated fields...
 1.4  28-Jul-1995  phil Improvements to YP support from Jason Downs.
 1.3  30-Nov-1994  jtc Merged with 4.4lite.
Changed to conform to NetBSD's new RCS Id conventions.
 1.2  01-Aug-1993  mycroft Add RCS indentifiers.
 1.1  21-Mar-1993  cgd branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision
 1.1.1.2  30-Nov-1994  jtc imported from 4.4lite
 1.1.1.1  21-Mar-1993  cgd initial import of 386bsd-0.1 sources
 1.6.2.2  12-Nov-1997  mrg pull up from trunk: add missing .Nm calls and MLINKS. from spz@serpens.swb.de
 1.6.2.1  06-Nov-1997  mellon Pull rev 1.7 up from trunk (fair)
 1.12.4.1  27-Dec-1999  wrstuden Pull up to last week's -current.
 1.12.2.2  17-Dec-1999  he Pull up revision 1.14 (requested by abs):
Clarify master.passwd vs. passwd files.
 1.12.2.1  31-Oct-1999  he Pull up revision 1.13 (requested by is):
Document what an & in the GECOS field does, fixing PR#8655.
 1.15.4.1  03-Aug-2000  pooka Pull up revision 1.16 (approved by thorpej)
s/master.password/master.passwd/

Fixes PR#10737
 1.28.6.2  22-May-2014  yamt sync with head.

for a reference, the tree before this commit was tagged
as yamt-pagecache-tag8.

this commit was splitted into small chunks to avoid
a limitation of cvs. ("Protocol error: too many arguments")
 1.28.6.1  23-May-2012  yamt sync with head.
 1.30.2.1  20-Aug-2014  tls Rebase to HEAD as of a few days ago.
 1.31.10.1  04-Nov-2016  pgoyette Sync with HEAD
 1.32.6.1  02-Sep-2019  martin Pull up following revision(s) (requested by sevan in ticket #1351):

share/man/man4/man4.amiga/grf.4: revision 1.7
share/man/man4/si.4: revision 1.11
share/man/man8/man8.sparc/boot.8: revision 1.32
share/man/man5/nsswitch.conf.5: revision 1.29
share/man/man5/mixerctl.conf.5: revision 1.7
share/man/man8/man8.vax/boot.8: revision 1.14
share/man/man4/man4.vax/dn.4: revision 1.12
share/man/man8/man8.vax/drtest.8: revision 1.16
share/man/man8/sysinst.8: revision 1.6
share/man/man4/ip.4: revision 1.37
share/man/man5/boot.cfg.5: revision 1.28
share/man/man1/cd.1: revision 1.10
share/man/man4/usb.4: revision 1.106
share/man/man4/man4.vax/ix.4: revision 1.17
share/man/man7/security.7: revision 1.15
share/man/man7/hier.7: revision 1.123
share/man/man8/afterboot.8: revision 1.58
share/man/man1/man1.x68k/bellctrl.1: revision 1.14
share/man/man4/se.4: revision 1.6
share/man/man4/utoppy.4: revision 1.7
share/man/man4/midi.4: revision 1.32
share/man/man4/cfb.4: revision 1.5
share/man/man4/man4.sparc/magma.4: revision 1.12
share/man/man4/audio.4: revision 1.80
share/man/man4/isic.4: revision 1.18
share/man/man1/cd.1: revision 1.7
share/man/man4/envsys.4: revision 1.51
share/man/man1/cd.1: revision 1.8
share/man/man1/cd.1: revision 1.9
share/man/man3/fast_divide32.3: revision 1.9
share/man/man4/pci.4: revision 1.97
share/man/man5/ranlib.5: revision 1.7
share/man/man3/__arraycount.3: revision 1.7
share/man/man4/isa.4: revision 1.46
share/man/man8/man8.atari/ahdilabel.8: revision 1.14
share/man/man4/chipsfb.4: revision 1.6
share/man/man8/man8.macppc/boot.8: revision 1.8
share/man/man5/passwd.5: revision 1.33
share/man/man8/man8.macppc/ofwboot.8: revision 1.14
share/man/man8/compat_linux.8: revision 1.38
share/man/man4/iop.4: revision 1.22
share/man/man4/ddb.4: revision 1.167
share/man/man4/termios.4: revision 1.37
share/man/man8/compat_freebsd.8: revision 1.18
share/man/man5/ar.5: revision 1.9
share/man/man7/release.7: revision 1.37
share/man/man5/core.5: revision 1.31
share/man/man4/ahd.4: revision 1.6
share/man/man4/man4.vax/ad.4: revision 1.12
share/man/man4/pppoe.4: revision 1.39
share/man/man5/locale.alias.5: revision 1.3
share/man/man8/man8.amiga/installboot.8: revision 1.23
share/man/man4/etherip.4: revision 1.8
share/man/man3/queue.3: revision 1.57
share/man/man5/genassym.cf.5: revision 1.13
share/man/man4/mpls.4: revision 1.10
share/man/man1/wait.1: revision 1.5
share/man/man5/capfile.5: revision 1.4
share/man/man4/man4.alpha/ttwopci.4: revision 1.6
share/man/man4/man4.atari/rtc.4: revision 1.8
share/man/man4/gpiosim.4: revision 1.6
share/man/man3/bitstring.3: revision 1.18
share/man/man4/isdntel.4: revision 1.8
share/man/man4/ai.4: revision 1.9
share/man/man8/man8.hppa/boot.8: revision 1.2
share/man/man4/uyurex.4: revision 1.6
share/man/man8/man8.alpha/mkbootimage.8: revision 1.9
share/man/man4/bpf.4: revision 1.56
share/man/man4/man4.amiga/mfcs.4: revision 1.8
share/man/man4/cmpci.4: revision 1.9
share/man/man8/man8.vax/format.8: revision 1.14
share/man/man8/compat_svr4.8: revision 1.27
share/man/man4/crypto.4: revision 1.26
share/man/man4/userconf.4: revision 1.13
share/man/man4/agp.4: revision 1.17
share/man/man9/man9.i386/bioscall.9: revision 1.10
share/man/man4/uftdi.4: revision 1.20
share/man/man4/radio.4: revision 1.13
share/man/man4/mfb.4: revision 1.5
share/man/man7/ascii.7: revision 1.8
share/man/man4/man4.vax/dl.4: revision 1.13
share/man/man4/ral.4: revision 1.12
share/man/man4/unix.4: revision 1.26
share/man/man4/edc.4: revision 1.12
share/man/man4/pim.4: revision 1.5
share/man/man8/compat_ultrix.8: revision 1.21
share/man/man4/dge.4: revision 1.11
share/man/man8/diskless.8: revision 1.32
share/man/man5/passwd.conf.5: revision 1.11
share/man/man8/man8.acorn26/boot26.8: revision 1.8
share/man/man4/man4.vax/hy.4: revision 1.12
share/man/man4/plip.4: revision 1.4
share/man/man4/sc.4: revision 1.8
share/man/man4/ec.4: revision 1.14
share/man/man4/man4.sgimips/giopci.4: revision 1.9
share/man/man7/sysctl.7: revision 1.114
share/man/man3/bits.3: revision 1.18
share/man/man4/we.4: revision 1.19
share/man/man8/compat_sunos.8: revision 1.21
share/man/man4/ip6.4: revision 1.31
share/man/man4/acpilid.4: revision 1.8
share/man/man4/man4.dreamcast/aica.4: revision 1.6
share/man/man4/mfi.4: revision 1.12
share/man/man4/ugen.4: revision 1.32
share/man/man4/jme.4: revision 1.7
share/man/man4/man4.sparc64/intro.4: revision 1.5
share/man/man4/zyd.4: revision 1.5
share/man/man4/gre.4: revision 1.45
share/man/man3/bitmap.3: revision 1.10
share/man/man4/man4.vax/cons.4: revision 1.12
share/man/man3/gcq.3: revision 1.4
share/man/man4/man4.hppa/pdc.4: revision 1.3
share/man/man4/multicast.4: revision 1.8
share/man/man4/man4.sparc/intro.4: revision 1.27
share/man/man4/ath.4: revision 1.32
share/man/man4/ym.4: revision 1.19
share/man/man3/iso646.3: revision 1.6
share/man/man4/btsco.4: revision 1.13
share/man/man4/man4.i386/ndis.4: revision 1.6
share/man/man4/pad.4: revision 1.6
share/man/man4/strip.4: revision 1.16
share/man/man8/man8.x86/boot.8: revision 1.12
share/man/man4/amr.4: revision 1.15
share/man/man4/ieee80211.4: revision 1.5
share/man/man4/options.4: revision 1.467
share/man/man5/link.5: revision 1.24
share/man/man8/man8.cobalt/boot.8: revision 1.10
share/man/man5/stab.5: revision 1.15
share/man/man3/tree.3: revision 1.12
share/man/man4/route.4: revision 1.31
share/man/man4/man4.sun3/leds.4: revision 1.13
share/man/man4/bluetooth.4: revision 1.20
share/man/man4/man4.i386/pcibios.4: revision 1.19
share/man/man5/veriexec.5: revision 1.8
share/man/man7/operator.7: revision 1.12
share/man/man4/man4.hp300/dcl.4: revision 1.13
share/man/man4/man4.i386/intro.4: revision 1.31
share/man/man5/ld.so.conf.5: revision 1.21
share/man/man8/man8.alpha/boot.8: revision 1.16
share/man/man4/bio.4: revision 1.13
share/man/man4/man4.sun2/leds.4: revision 1.10
share/man/man8/man8.x86/mbr.8: revision 1.4
share/man/man8/man8.mvme68k/boot.8: revision 1.9
share/man/man4/man4.alpha/ttwoga.4: revision 1.6
share/man/man4/ahc.4: revision 1.34

Direct reader to shell documentation generally, rather than csh(1)
specifically.

Mention variables OLDPWD and PWD.

Move the text that explains that cd(1) is a shell built-in to the very
beginning of the description where it can be seen prominently.

Improve formatting.

-

Remove workaround for ancient HTML generation code.
Use EXIT STATUS and .Ex.
 1.33.8.1  05-Sep-2019  martin Pull up following revision(s) (requested by sevan in ticket #174):
lib/libc/sys/chmod.2: revision 1.48
lib/libc/sys/stat.2: revision 1.59
lib/libc/sys/unlink.2: revision 1.30
lib/libc/sys/lseek.2: revision 1.25
lib/libc/sys/getuid.2: revision 1.18
lib/libc/sys/chown.2: revision 1.37
lib/libm/man/exp.3: revision 1.32
lib/libm/man/log.3: revision 1.7
lib/libc/sys/open.2: revision 1.60
lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3: revision 1.36
lib/libc/stdio/putc.3: revision 1.14
lib/libc/sys/mount.2: revision 1.51
share/man/man9/copy.9: revision 1.22
share/man/man9/uiomove.9: revision 1.20
lib/libc/sys/setuid.2: revision 1.23
lib/libc/sys/close.2: revision 1.18
sbin/init/init.8: revision 1.61
lib/libc/sys/write.2: revision 1.36
lib/libc/sys/read.2: revision 1.39
sbin/init/init.8: revision 1.62
lib/libc/sys/wait.2: revision 1.40
usr.bin/tty/tty.1: revision 1.10
lib/libc/sys/link.2: revision 1.33
usr.bin/du/du.1: revision 1.24
lib/libc/stdlib/exit.3: revision 1.17
usr.bin/su/su.1: revision 1.53
usr.bin/mail/mail.1: revision 1.66
lib/libc/sys/fork.2: revision 1.25
usr.bin/su/su.1: revision 1.54
usr.bin/mail/mail.1: revision 1.67
lib/libm/man/sin.3: revision 1.15
share/man/man9/intro.9: revision 1.26
share/man/man5/utmp.5: revision 1.17
lib/libc/compat-43/creat.3: revision 1.17
lib/libc/time/ctime.3: revision 1.61
lib/libcompat/4.1/stty.3: revision 1.10
usr.bin/dc/dc.1: revision 1.3
lib/libm/man/cos.3: revision 1.17
lib/libc/sys/chdir.2: revision 1.23
lib/libc/gen/exec.3: revision 1.30
lib/libc/gen/exec.3: revision 1.31
games/bcd/bcd.6: revision 1.18
games/bcd/bcd.6: revision 1.19
usr.bin/write/write.1: revision 1.7
usr.bin/wc/wc.1: revision 1.18
usr.bin/pr/pr.1: revision 1.24
usr.bin/who/who.1: revision 1.25
lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2: revision 1.30
lib/libc/stdio/getc.3: revision 1.13
usr.bin/sort/sort.1: revision 1.40
usr.bin/mesg/mesg.1: revision 1.11
share/man/man5/passwd.5: revision 1.34
sort was there since v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man61.pdf

dc was in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man12.pdf

du was in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man12.pdf

mail was in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man12.pdf

mesg was in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man12.pdf

Document history
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man13.pdf

su was in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man13.pdf

Document history
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man13.pdf

Document history
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man14.pdf
Update URL

write was in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man14.pdf
grammar

passwd(5) was in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man51.pdf

utmp(5) was present in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man51.pdf

Earliest version of wtmp I could find was in v3
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V3/man/man5/wtmp.5

Document history of chdir(2)
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man21.pdf

Document history of chmod(2)
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man21.pdf

Document history of chown(2)
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man21.pdf

Document history
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man21.pdf

create was present in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man21.pdf

Document history of exec()
Move statement on execlpe() & execvpe() to HISTORY section.

Document history
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man21.pdf

fork was present in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man21.pdf
stat() was present in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man22.pdf

document history of fstat()
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man21.pdf

getuid was present in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man21.pdf

Document history
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man21.pdf

Document history
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man21.pdf

stty & gtty were around since v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man21.pdf
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man22.pdf

mount & umount were present in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man22.pdf

Open was present in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man22.pdf

read was present in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man22.pdf

seek was present in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man22.pdf

setuid was in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man22.pdf

unlink was presen in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man22.pdf

wait was present in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man22.pdf

write was present in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man22.pdf

start documenting history
exp was present in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man31.pdf

Start documenting history
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man31.pdf

Start documenting history
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man31.pdf

log appeared in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man31.pdf

putc & putw were in v1
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man31.pdf

putchar was in v4
https://minie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V4/man/man3/putchr.3

Start documenting history
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man31.pdf

Document history.
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man11.pdf
Between v1 & v6 UNIX, bcd was rewritten in C, but I don't know if which
version,
hence I've skipped mentioning it.
End sentence with a dot.
Remove superfluous Pp.
Remove superfluous Pp.
Remove superfluous Ns.
Remove superfluous Pp.
fetch(9) -> ufetch(9)
fetch(9) -> ufetch(9). Remove superfluous Pp.
fetch(9) -> ufetch(9). Remove reference to unimplemented ppi(9).
 1.33.6.1  13-Apr-2020  martin Mostly merge changes from HEAD upto 20200411

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