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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-26 00:37:06 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-26 00:37:06 +0000
commit01d43ab29c5618b38c41c75e5b155afc5b05f1dd (patch)
treeb3543c61a16271eb382ee68f04b4bc10769e6240 /share/man/man5/netgroup.5
parent79664bbfef78e407d77f500003f78b59577ca8b6 (diff)
Some share/man fleshing.
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diff --git a/share/man/man5/netgroup.5 b/share/man/man5/netgroup.5
index ff61e9a9e52..8940e2d2123 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/netgroup.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/netgroup.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: netgroup.5,v 1.8 2000/03/19 19:25:30 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: netgroup.5,v 1.9 2000/10/26 00:37:05 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: netgroup.5,v 1.3 1995/03/18 14:58:34 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
@@ -45,16 +45,14 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-file
-specifies
+file specifies
.Dq netgroups ,
which are sets of
.Sy (host, user, domain)
tuples that are to be given similar network access.
.Pp
-Each line in the file
-consists of a netgroup name followed by a list of the members of the
-netgroup.
+Each line in the file consists of a netgroup name followed by a list of
+the members of the netgroup.
Each member can be either the name of another netgroup or a specification
of a tuple as follows:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
@@ -73,8 +71,7 @@ value or may consist of the single character
.Dq \&-
to specify
.Dq no valid value .
-The members of the list may be separated by whitespace;
-the
+The members of the list may be separated by whitespace; the
.Dq \e
character may be used at the end of a line to specify line continuation.
The functions specified in
@@ -99,7 +96,9 @@ file contains a
.Dq +
entry.
.Pp
-Lines that begin with a # are treated as comments.
+Lines that begin with a
+.Ql #
+are treated as comments.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/netgroup.db -compact
.It Pa /etc/netgroup.db