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authorTom Cosgrove <tom@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-03-09 17:39:34 +0000
committerTom Cosgrove <tom@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-03-09 17:39:34 +0000
commita1b029366639ecfe75bc678b9f8d4f69e7161639 (patch)
tree01d9c2f4f0d38110c4c866deab0942b7c6bd18a4 /usr.sbin/adduser
parentf190059c967fbc87d1447ce3aa9af0e86806e2ba (diff)
Clarify -unencrypted. Closes PR 3705.
ok otto@, nick@, millert@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/adduser')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.88
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.8 b/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.8
index e1a9d7e8501..27f80cb4de0 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: adduser.8,v 1.35 2004/01/23 23:08:47 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: adduser.8,v 1.36 2004/03/09 17:39:33 tom Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1995-1996 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>. Berlin.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -160,9 +160,9 @@ when generating UIDs.
.It Fl unencrypted
Causes the program to assume that the password given in batch mode is
unencrypted.
-The password will be encrypted before it's added to the password file.
-Use of this option will leave username and cleartext password displayable
-for any user.
+The password will be encrypted before being added to the password file.
+Use of this option is discouraged, as the username and cleartext password
+will appear in the process list, which is visible to users.
.It Fl verbose , v
Causes the program to print many warnings and questions.
This option is recommended for novice users.