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convuser(8)


NAME

  convuser - convert user profile information between BASE and ENHANCED
  formats


SYNOPSIS

  /usr/tcb/bin/convuser -a  [-c] [-i] [-n] [-u] [-R] [-U uid] [-M] [-T
  template] [-[qv]] [users]

  [/usr/tcb/bin/convuser] -b  [-T template] [-[qv]] [users]

  [/usr/tcb/bin/convuser] -d  [-n] [-M] [-[qv]] [users]

  [/usr/tcb/bin/convuser] -H


OPTIONS

  -a  Converts from BASE to ENHANCED authentication format. This option is
      incompatible with the -b and -d options. If none of -a, -b, or -d have
      been supplied, then -a is implied by any of -c, -i, -n, -u, -R, or -U.

  -b  Converts from ENHANCED to BASE authentication format. This option is
      incompatible with the -a and -d options. The conversion in this case is
      bring any compatible passwords from the extended profile back to the
      BASE profile.

  -c  Causes the conversion for -a to create new extended profiles only. If
      the -c option is given, existing extended profiles will remain
      unchanged.

  -d  Removes any extended profiles which do not still have corresponding
      BASE profiles.

  -i  Cause the conversion for -a to invalidate the encrypted password field
      in the BASE profile if the change to the ENHANCED profile is
      successful.

  -n  Cause the -a and -d conversions to include NIS passwd.byname map
      entries in the list of BASE profiles for consideration.

  -q  Cause non-error output to be suppressed.

  -u  Cause the -a conversion to leave the migrated passwords still usable.
      The default is to pre-expire them.

  -v  Cause more verbose reports of progress to be given.

  -M  Work on NIS master map files rather than the local profiles. This
      option works on NIS master hosts only.

  -R  Cause newly-created extended profiles to be written only to the
      /tcb/files directory tree (v4 only).

  -T template
      Causes the creation of new extended profiles to use user template as
      the template for the account default values. Causes the conversion for
      -b to consider only accounts with template as the associated account
      template.

  -U uid
      Causes newly-crated extended profiles with UID values less than uid to
      be written to the /tcb/files directory tree (v4 only).

  -H  Cause an extended usage message to be given and no other processing to
      be performed.


DESCRIPTION

  The convuser utility is used to provide migration between BASE and ENHANCED
  security levels, as well as to provide support for the use of existing
  account-creation scripts.  The most common uses are to clean up dangling
  extended profiles (those without corresponding BASE profiles) after the
  removal of the base profiles, and to create new extended profiles to
  correspond to newly added base profiles.


EXAMPLES

  To remove dangling profiles:

       # convuser -d
       # convuser -Md

  To finish the addition of new accounts on a system using NIS to supply the
  extended profile information:

       # convuser -iu
       # convuser -Miu

  To finish the addition of new accounts on a system using NIS to supply the
  extended profile information:

       # convuser -iun


SEE ALSO

  Files: prpasswd(4), authcap(4)

  Security

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