From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Mar 16 14:40:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 629B937B404 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:40:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2GMe2m78705; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:40:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:40:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203162240.g2GMe2m78705@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: docs/35942: at(1) manual doesn't describe at.allow and at.deny formats. Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/35942; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/35942: at(1) manual doesn't describe at.allow and at.deny formats. Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 18:41:05 +0200 On 2002-03-15 18:15, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > The at(1) manual doesn't describe the format of the at.allow and at.deny > files (in "/var/at/"). > > >Fix: > > Determine the allowed formats and add descriptions to the manual. Well, it sort of does. Quoting the manpage. If the file /var/at/at.allow exists, only usernames mentioned in it are allowed to use at. This needs to be made more descriptive though. What do you think of the following? Index: at.man =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/at/at.man,v retrieving revision 1.27 diff -4 -u -r1.27 at.man --- at.man 15 Mar 2002 15:26:57 -0000 1.27 +++ at.man 16 Mar 2002 16:38:17 -0000 @@ -173,16 +173,22 @@ If the file .Pa _PERM_PATH/at.allow exists, only usernames mentioned in it are allowed to use .Nm . +Add the names of the users that should be allowed to run +.Nm +to this file, one per line. .Pp If .Pa _PERM_PATH/at.allow does not exist, .Pa _PERM_PATH/at.deny is checked, every username not mentioned in it is then allowed to use .Nm Ns . +Add the names of the users that should not be allowed to run +.Nm +to this file, one per line. .Pp If neither exists, only the superuser is allowed use of .Nm Ns . This is the default configuration. Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message