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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-19 17:57:20 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-19 17:57:20 +0000
commit480390dc59325200978ed49a1b26f00a94c91baa (patch)
tree062c09ac43a080a68cd77af35c77fcac0d938f46 /usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8
parentfb660b4c0cea9ae33d3d4dac0984c52ed7b6eeb0 (diff)
Remove hard sentence breaks. Add $OpenBSD$ tags where appropriate. Some other
cleanup along the way.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.811
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8 b/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8
index 58ea7d8b8d1..d54295ed55f 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: vipw.8,v 1.5 1999/05/23 14:11:39 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: vipw.8,v 1.6 2000/03/19 17:57:17 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: vipw.8,v 1.4 1995/01/20 19:19:56 mycroft Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ and does any necessary processing after the password file is unlocked.
If the password file is already locked for editing by another user,
.Nm
will ask you
-to try again later. The default editor for
+to try again later.
+The default editor for
.Nm
is
.Xr vi 1 .
@@ -69,8 +70,10 @@ Once the information has been verified,
.Nm
uses
.Xr pwd_mkdb 8
-to update the user database. This is run in the background, and,
-at very large sites could take several minutes. Until this update
+to update the user database.
+This is run in the background, and,
+at very large sites could take several minutes.
+Until this update
is completed, the password file is unavailable for other updates
and the new information is not available to programs.
.Pp