Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 10:01:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Saad <msaad@about.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/167742: Update documentation for group 5, and newgrp 1 Message-ID: <201205081401.q48E1LXw027628@blindness.ops.about.com> Resent-Message-ID: <201205091620.q49GKCFO036254@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 167742 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Update documentation for group 5, and newgrp 1 >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed May 09 16:20:11 UTC 2012 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Mark Saad >Release: FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE amd64 >Organization: About.com >Environment: System: FreeBSD blindness.ops.about.com 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #2: Tue Apr 10 11:32:01 EDT 2012 root@blindness.ops.about.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: The man pages for both group 5 and newgrp 1 do not include examples of how to use group passwords. >How-To-Repeat: See man 1 newgrp and man 5 group >Fix: eadler@freebsd.org stated that a short example similar to this would do in the newgrp man page Create the group % pw group add foo Set the group password % pw group mod foo -h 0 As a non root user switch to the group % newgrp foo Also in the group 5 man the See Also section should include a refrence to newgrp 1 >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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