npppd-users(5)

npppd-users5

User database file

Overview

The npppd-users file describes the various attributes of users. Refer to cgetent(3) for a description of the file layout. Each entry in the database is used to describe one user. The record name is the username. The following attributes can be specified:

NameDescription
password
framed-ip-address
framed-ip-netmask
calling-number

Files

/etc/npppd/npppd-users

User database file.

Examples

taro:\
    :password=taro's password:\
    :framed-ip-address=192.168.0.101:
hana:\
    :password=hana's password:\
    :framed-ip-address=192.168.0.102:

Releases

29 releases since OpenBSD 5.3; the text changed 4 times.

  1. 5.3–5.5
  2. 5.6–6.1
  3. 6.2–6.4
  4. 6.5
  5. 6.6–8.0

Bugs

Colon (‘:’) characters or vertical bar (‘|’) characters cannot be used in the username.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.