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USERMGMT.CONF(5)	  OpenBSD Programmer's Manual	      USERMGMT.CONF(5)

NAME
     usermgmt.conf - user management tools configuration file

SYNOPSIS
     usermgmt.conf

DESCRIPTION
     The usermgmt.conf file defines the default values used by the user
     management tools, user(8).

     Options in this file can be set by manually editing /etc/usermgmt.conf or
     using the -D option to useradd(8).

     base_dir	Sets the base directory name, in which new users' home
		directories are created when using the -m option to
		useradd(8).

     class	Sets the default login class for new users.  See login.conf(5)
		for more information on user login classes.

     expire	Sets the default time at which the new accounts expire.	 Both
		the expire and inactive fields should be entered in the form
		``month day year'', where month is the month name (the first
		three characters are sufficient), day is the day of the month,
		and year is the year.  Time in seconds since the Epoch (UTC)
		is also valid.	A value of 0 can be used to disable this
		feature.

     group	Sets the default primary group for new users.  If this is
		`=uid', then a UID and GID will be picked which are both
		unique and the same, and a line added to /etc/group to
		describe the new group.	 It has the format:

		      group gid | name | =uid

     inactive	Sets the default time at which the passwords of new accounts
		expire.	 A value of 0 can be used to disable this feature.
		Also see the expire field.

     password	Specifies an already-encrypted default password.

     preserve	If this value is one of `true', `yes', or a non-zero number,
		then the user login information will be preserved when
		removing a user with userdel(8).

     range	Specifies the UID boundaries for new users.  If unspecified,
		the default is ``1000..60000''.	 It has the format:

		      range starting-uid..ending-uid

     shell	Sets the default login shell for new users.

     skel_dir	Sets the default skeleton directory in which to find files
		with which to populate the new user's home directory.

FILES
     /etc/usermgmt.conf
     /etc/skel/*
     /etc/login.conf

SEE ALSO
     login.conf(5), passwd(5), user(8), useradd(8), userdel(8), usermod(8)

STANDARDS
     Other implementations of the user(8) utilities use the inactive-time
     parameter to refer to the maximum number of days allowed between logins
     (this is used to lock "stale" accounts that have not been used for a
     period of time).  However, on OpenBSD systems this parameter refers
     instead to the password change time.  This is due to differences in the
     passwd(5) database compared to other operating systems.

HISTORY
     The usermgmt.conf configuration file first appeared in OpenBSD 2.7.

OpenBSD 4.9		      September 19, 2010		   OpenBSD 4.9
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