Hi Ceri, Thanks for these diffs and the detailed information, much appreciated!
-Michelle Ceri Davies wrote: > Hello, > > I've attached a pair of diffs again the nv80 drop of the manpages. > > The first, project.diff, fixes a nit in the SEE ALSO section of > project.4. > > The second, passwd_group.diff, may be a little more contentious, but > updates the description of the username field in passwd.4 to point out > exactly what will display a warning if the username is over eight bytes. > It also updates the description of the groupname field in group.4 to > list the same "restriction" with regard to the groupadd and grpck > utilities. > > Note that the second one is possibly contentious because no such limits > exist, with the exception that a large number of utilities break in > various ways with user and group names over 8 characters. > > Ceri > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > diff -ru man.orig/man4/project.4 man/man4/project.4 > --- man.orig/man4/project.4 Wed Dec 12 11:07:47 2007 > +++ man/man4/project.4 Wed Jan 9 12:41:42 2008 > @@ -200,4 +200,4 @@ > .SH SEE ALSO > .sp > .LP > -\fBnewtask\fR(1), \fBprojects\fR(1), > \fBprctl\fR(1)\fBgetprojent\fR(3PROJECT), \fBsetrctl\fR(2), > \fBunistd.h\fR(3HEAD), \fBnsswitch.conf\fR(4), \fBresource_controls\fR(5) > +\fBnewtask\fR(1), \fBprojects\fR(1), \fBprctl\fR(1), > \fBgetprojent\fR(3PROJECT), \fBsetrctl\fR(2), \fBunistd.h\fR(3HEAD), > \fBnsswitch.conf\fR(4), \fBresource_controls\fR(5) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > diff -ru man.orig/man4/group.4 man/man4/group.4 > --- man.orig/man4/group.4 Wed Dec 12 11:07:46 2007 > +++ man/man4/group.4 Wed Jan 9 12:58:01 2008 > @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ > .ad > .RS 13n > .rt > -The name of the group. > +The name of the group. The group field accepts a string of no more than > eight characters from the set of lowercase alphabetic characters and numeric > characters. The \fBgroupadd\fR(1m) and \fBgrpck\fR(1m) utilities display a > warning message if these restrictions are not met. > .RE > > .sp > @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ > .SH SEE ALSO > .sp > .LP > -\fBgroups\fR(1), \fBgrpck\fR(1B), \fBnewgrp\fR(1), \fBgetgrnam\fR(3C), > \fBinitgroups\fR(3C), \fBnsswitch.conf\fR(4), \fBunistd.h\fR(3HEAD) > +\fBgroupadd\fR(1M), \fBgroups\fR(1), \fBgrpck\fR(1B), \fBnewgrp\fR(1), > \fBgetgrnam\fR(3C), \fBinitgroups\fR(3C), \fBnsswitch.conf\fR(4), > \fBunistd.h\fR(3HEAD) > .sp > .LP > \fISystem Administration Guide: Basic Administration\fR > diff -ru man.orig/man4/passwd.4 man/man4/passwd.4 > --- man.orig/man4/passwd.4 Wed Dec 12 11:07:47 2007 > +++ man/man4/passwd.4 Wed Jan 9 12:54:36 2008 > @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ > .rt > is the user's login name. > .sp > -The login (\fBlogin\fR) and role (\fBrole\fR) fields accept a string of no > more than eight bytes consisting of characters from the set of alphabetic > characters, numeric characters, period (\fB\&.\fR), underscore (\fB_\fR), and > hyphen (\fB-\fR). The first character should be alphabetic and the field > should contain at least one lower case alphabetic character. A warning > message is displayed if these restrictions are not met. > +The login (\fBlogin\fR) and role (\fBrole\fR) fields accept a string of no > more than eight bytes consisting of characters from the set of alphabetic > characters, numeric characters, period (\fB\&.\fR), underscore (\fB_\fR), and > hyphen (\fB-\fR). The first character should be alphabetic and the field > should contain at least one lower case alphabetic character. The > \fBpwck\fR(1m) and \fBuseradd\fR(1m) utilities display a warning message if > these restrictions are not met. > .sp > The \fBlogin\fR and \fBrole\fR fields must contain at least one character > and must not contain a colon (\fB:\fR) or a newline (\fB\en\fR). > .RE > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > docs-discuss mailing list > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/attachments/20080110/c85d26d9/attachment.html>
