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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-08-29 21:12:27 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-08-29 21:12:27 +0000
commitdb4ff0537a285137d22d610a8d229d30955181f3 (patch)
treea3aef28106e81149d2b46636acee273fb6dc7bf5 /usr.sbin
parent79c215bbdf655d5e8b7291acc4eefac3ce2cb3b8 (diff)
man page repairs; aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.819
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.8 b/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.8
index f94d88d0b3e..3a1bd6297ff 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: adduser.8,v 1.2 1997/05/29 04:26:55 gene Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: adduser.8,v 1.3 1998/08/29 21:11:15 deraadt Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1995-1996 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>. Berlin.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -46,9 +46,8 @@
.Nm Adduser
is a simple program for adding new users. Adduser first performs consistency
checks on the passwd, group, and shell databases. It creates passwd/group
-entries, a HOME-directory, and dotfiles for a new user, and sends
-him or her a welcome message at the discretion of the person creating
-the account.
+entries, a HOME-directory, dotfiles for a new user, and sends him or her a
+welcome message at the discretion of the person creating the account.
.Sh RESTRICTIONS
.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
@@ -71,20 +70,20 @@ you can define an alias in
.It Sy fullname
This should contain the user's firstname and surname. The
.Ql Pa \:
-is not permitted..
+is not permitted.
.It Sy shell
Only valid entries from the
.Xr shells 5
database or entries corresponding to sliplogin and pppd are permitted.
.It Sy uid
-This value is automatically generated or assigend at the invoker's
+This value is automatically generated or assigned at the invoker's
discretion; however, it must be less than 32000.
.It Sy gid/login group
This value is generated automatically, but it can be specified at the
discretion of the person invoking the program.
.It Sy password
If not empty, the password is encrypted according to
-.Xr passwd.conf 5
+.Xr passwd.conf 5 .
If empty, the account will be automatically disabled to prevent spurious
access to it.
.
@@ -123,7 +122,7 @@ straightforward.
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Sy -batch username [group[,group]...] [fullname] [password]
-Enter batch mode in which multiple users are specified on the command line
+Enter batch mode in which multiple users are specified on the command-line
in a compact format.
.It Sy -check_only
@@ -162,7 +161,7 @@ means that the username is to be used as the login group.
Print a summary of options and exit.
.It Sy -home Ar partition
-Specify the default home partition where all users home directories
+Specify the default home partition where all users' home directories
are to be located.
.It Sy -message Ar file
@@ -189,7 +188,7 @@ Use uid's from
up when automatically generating uid's.
.It Sy -verbose,-v
-Causes the program to print many warnings and question.
+Causes the program to print many warnings and questions.
This option is recommended for novice users.
.\" .Sh FORMAT