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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-08 03:11:33 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-08 03:11:33 +0000
commite45310403fedc9502e371a3bb62565363175569b (patch)
tree744a1821290a4a34c756115132c941e3dabfbda2 /usr.bin/login/login.1
parent029679decb841b5e94bd5daeda5186e2a6b6d092 (diff)
Various cleanups and improvements.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/login/login.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/login/login.114
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/login/login.1 b/usr.bin/login/login.1
index ef4cc938f0f..aab4e081cb7 100644
--- a/usr.bin/login/login.1
+++ b/usr.bin/login/login.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: login.1,v 1.11 1999/07/21 01:25:46 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: login.1,v 1.12 2000/03/08 03:11:32 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: login.1,v 1.7 1995/08/31 22:52:33 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ of the user fails,
.Nm
prompts for a user name.
Authentication of users is done via passwords.
-Alternately, the user can enter the password "s/key", in which case
+Alternately, the user can enter the password
+.Qq s/key ,
+in which case
S/Key authentication of users is performed, as descibed in
.Xr skey 1 .
S/Key is a Trademark of Bellcore.
@@ -68,15 +70,15 @@ The
option is used when a user name is specified to indicate that proper
authentication has already been done and that no password need be
requested.
-This option may only be used by the super-user or when an already
+This option may only be used by the superuser or when an already
logged in user is logging in as themselves.
.It Fl h Ar hostname
The
.Fl h
option specifies the host from which the connection was received.
It is used by various daemons such as
-.Xr telnetd 8 .
-This option may only be used by the super-user.
+.Xr telnetd 8 .
+This option may only be used by the superuser.
.It Fl p
By default,
.Nm
@@ -92,7 +94,7 @@ exists,
.Nm
displays its contents to the user and exits.
This is used by
-.Xr shutdown 8
+.Xr shutdown 8
to prevent users from logging in when the system is about to go down.
.Pp
If the file