1.Dd July 20, 2004 2.Dt CHKPASSWD 8 3.Os Darwin 4.Sh NAME 5.Nm chkpasswd 6.Nd verifies user password against various systems 7.Sh SYNOPSIS 8.Nm chkpasswd 9.Op Fl i Ar infosystem Op Fl l Ar location 10.Op Fl c 11.Op Ar name 12.Sh DESCRIPTION 13.Nm chkpasswd 14verifies a supplied username and password against file, NIS, 15or OpenDirectory infosystems. 16.Pp 17The options are as follows: 18.Bl -tag -width Ds 19.\" ========== 20.It Fl c 21The supplied password is compared verbatim without first being encrypted. 22.\" ========== 23.It Fl i Ar infosystem 24Specify the system against which to check the password 25(default is PAM). Valid systems: 26.Bl -tag -width "opendirectory" 27.It Ar file 28File-based passwords 29.It Ar nis 30NIS/YP authentication 31.It Ar opendirectory 32OpenDirectory (Directory Services) authentication. 33If no 34.Fl l 35option is specified, the search node is used. 36.It Ar PAM 37Pluggable Authentication Modules 38.El 39.Pp 40.\" ========== 41.It Fl l Ar location 42Specify a location; varies based on infosystem type: 43.Bl -tag -width "for opendirectory" 44.It for file 45Filename (default: /etc/master.passwd). 46.It for nis 47NIS domainname. 48.It for opendirectory 49A directory node name such as /Local/Default. 50.It for PAM 51Unused. 52.El 53.Pp 54.El 55.Ar name 56username 57.Sh SEE ALSO 58.Xr dscl 1 , 59.Xr passwd 5 60