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-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/passwd.56
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/passwd.5 b/share/man/man5/passwd.5
index 9266a3664b8..93955889748 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/passwd.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/passwd.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: passwd.5,v 1.29 2004/10/05 14:18:22 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: passwd.5,v 1.30 2005/02/09 16:28:30 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: passwd.5,v 1.4 1995/07/28 06:46:05 phil Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991, 1993
@@ -83,6 +83,10 @@ and has the class, change, and expire fields removed.
Also, the encrypted password field is replaced by an asterisk
.Pq Ql \&* .
.Pp
+The password files should never be edited by hand;
+.Xr vipw 8
+should be used instead.
+.Pp
The
.Ar name
field is the login used to access the computer account, and the