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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libutil/pw_init.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libutil/pw_init.3 | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libutil/pw_init.3 b/lib/libutil/pw_init.3 index 18a90493a2b..6de6c101353 100644 --- a/lib/libutil/pw_init.3 +++ b/lib/libutil/pw_init.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: pw_init.3,v 1.5 2002/05/01 08:03:30 mpech Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: pw_init.3,v 1.6 2003/05/23 12:31:32 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1995 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -83,10 +83,11 @@ disabling most signals. .Pp The .Fn pw_setdir -function sets an alternative directory where the rest of the functions looks +function sets an alternative directory where the rest of the functions look for password-related files. Use this if you are writing utilities that should -be able to handle password files outside of /etc. +be able to handle password files outside of +.Pa /etc . .Pp The .Fn pw_file @@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ function transforms filenames so that they end up in the directory specified to the latest .Fn pw_setdir call. -The rule is that all directories are stripped off the given name and +The rule is that all directories are stripped of the given name and only the filename is appended to the directory. .Pp The @@ -188,7 +189,8 @@ The .Fn pw_scan function prints a warning message and returns 0 if the string in the .Fa bp -argument is not a valid passwd string. Otherwise, +argument is not a valid passwd string. +Otherwise, .Fn pw_scan returns 1. .Sh FILES |