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15 .TH lppasswd 1 "CUPS" "22 February 2008" "Apple Inc."
17 lppasswd \- add, change, or delete digest passwords.
34 \fIlppasswd\fR adds, changes, or deletes passwords in the CUPS
35 digest password file, \fIpasswd.md5\fR. When run by a normal
36 user, \fIlppasswd\fR will prompt for the old and new passwords.
37 When run by the super-user, \fIlppasswd\fR can add new accounts
38 (\fI-a username\fR), change existing accounts (\fIusername\fR),
39 or delete accounts (\fI-x username\fR) in the digest password
40 file. Digest usernames do not have to match local UNIX usernames.
42 \fIlppasswd\fR supports the following options:
46 Specifies a group other than the default system group.
48 By default, the \fIlppasswd\fR program is not installed to allow ordinary
49 users to change their passwords. To enable this, the \fIlppasswd\fR command
50 must be made setuid to root with the command:
56 While every attempt has been made to make \fIlppasswd\fR secure against
57 exploits that could grant super-user privileges to unprivileged users,
58 paranoid system administrators may wish to use Basic authentication with
59 accounts managed by PAM instead.
61 \fIlp(1)\fR, \fIlpr(1)\fR,
63 http://localhost:631/help
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