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author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-09-17 04:15:04 +0000 |
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committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-09-17 04:15:04 +0000 |
commit | afa9f8ccda18c5ff879f432ae6f0b9a601b992b3 (patch) | |
tree | 8356bdc65590449d1a86d64a309c95681f802ad2 /sbin/mount_umap/mount_umap.8 | |
parent | 90e9edeb57b7efe3b1aba0ddeda30341b7e9fd0c (diff) |
sbin/ man page fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/mount_umap/mount_umap.8')
-rw-r--r-- | sbin/mount_umap/mount_umap.8 | 40 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/mount_umap/mount_umap.8 b/sbin/mount_umap/mount_umap.8 index dccfe32fda2..90e9bb6e7c1 100644 --- a/sbin/mount_umap/mount_umap.8 +++ b/sbin/mount_umap/mount_umap.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mount_umap.8,v 1.5 1998/06/15 17:55:50 mickey Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mount_umap.8,v 1.6 1998/09/17 04:14:56 aaron Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: mount_umap.8,v 1.4 1996/03/05 02:36:42 thorpej Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994 @@ -52,12 +52,12 @@ -g .Ar gid-mapfile .Ar target -.Ar mount-point +.Ar mount_point .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm mount_umap -command is used to mount a sub-tree of an existing file system -that uses a different set of uids and gids than the local system. +command is used to mount a subtree of an existing file system +that uses a different set of UIDs and GIDs than the local system. Such a file system could be mounted from a remote site via NFS or it could be a file system on removable media brought from some foreign location that uses a different password file. @@ -76,19 +76,19 @@ man page for possible options and their meanings. The .Nm mount_umap command uses a set of files provided by the user to make correspondences -between uids and gids in the sub-tree's original environment and -some other set of ids in the local environment. For instance, user -smith might have uid 1000 in the original environment, while having -uid 2000 in the local environment. The +between UIDs and GIDs in the subtree's original environment and +some other set of IDs in the local environment. For instance, user +smith might have UID 1000 in the original environment, while having +UID 2000 in the local environment. The .Nm mount_umap command allows the subtree from smith's original environment to be -mapped in such a way that all files with owning uid 1000 look like -they are actually owned by uid 2000. +mapped in such a way that all files with owner UID 1000 look like +they are actually owned by UID 2000. .Pp .Em target -should be the current location of the sub-tree in the +should be the current location of the subtree in the local system's name space. -.Em mount-point +.Ar mount_point should be a directory where the mapped subtree is to be placed. .Em uid-mapfile @@ -97,27 +97,27 @@ and describe the mappings to be made between identifiers. Briefly, the format of these files is a count of the number of mappings on the first line, with each subsequent line containing -a single mapping. Each of these mappings consists of an id from -the original environment and the corresponding id in the local environment, +a single mapping. Each of these mappings consists of an ID from +the original environment and the corresponding ID in the local environment, separated by white space. .Em uid-mapfile -should contain all uid +should contain all UID mappings, and .Em gid-mapfile -should contain all gid mappings. -Any uids not mapped in +should contain all GID mappings. +Any UIDs not mapped in .Em uid-mapfile will be treated as user NOBODY, -and any gids not mapped in +and any GIDs not mapped in .Em gid-mapfile will be treated as group -NULLGROUP. At most 64 uids can be mapped for a given subtree, and +NULLGROUP. At most 64 UIDs can be mapped for a given subtree, and at most 16 groups can be mapped by a given subtree. .Pp The mapfiles can be located anywhere in the file hierarchy, but they must be owned by root, and they must be writable only by root. .Nm mount_umap -will refuse to map the sub-tree if the ownership or permissions on +will refuse to map the subtree if the ownership or permissions on these files are improper. It will also balk if the count of mappings in the first line of the map files is not correct. .Pp |