This is the Debian prepackaged version of the Debian Base Password and Group files, plus the update-passwd utility to handle upgrades. The master files were originally written by Ian Murdock and Bruce Perens . update-passwd is copyright 1999-2002 Wichert Akkerman This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 2 of the the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.