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pwgrd(1M)

HP-UX 11i Version 3: February 2007
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NAME

pwgrd — password and group hashing and caching daemon

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/pwgrd [-d] [-l logfile]

DESCRIPTION

pwgrd provides accelerated lookup of password and group information for libc routines like getpwuid and getgrname. pwgrd implements per request type caches and hashtables as appropriate. When the corresponding routine in libc is called, a request is issued to pwgrd via a Unix domain socket connection. pwgrd determines whether it can satisfy the request, returning the appropriate results to the requesting process.

Options

pwgrd recognizes the following options and command-line arguments:

-d

Debug mode. Do not become a daemon. Issue additional diagnostic messages. Instead of logging message via syslog, issue messages to stderr.

-l logfile

Logfile. In addition to logging via syslog, pwgrd will write log messages to logfile.

pwgrd modifies its behavior depending on whether or not the local machine is using some form of NIS for password or group information. When NIS is being used, the hashtables corresponding to that service are not generated or consulted. Therefore only caching is provided for those requests.

AUTHOR

pwgrd was developed by the Hewlett-Packard Company.

FILES

/etc/rc.config.d/pwgr

Start up configuration variable. Set PWGR to 1 if you want pwgrd to start on reboot.

/var/spool/pwgr/*

Hash files, status file and daemon Unix domain socket.

/var/spool/sockets/pwgr/*

Client Unix domain sockets.

SEE ALSO

pwgr_stat(1M).

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