Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:58:05 +0000 (UTC) From: Dru Lavigne <dru@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r41037 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users Message-ID: <201302241658.r1OGw5KI010324@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: dru Date: Sun Feb 24 16:58:04 2013 New Revision: 41037 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41037 Log: Minor rewording. Submitted by: bjk, wblock Approved by: gjb Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml Sat Feb 23 14:50:24 2013 (r41036) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml Sun Feb 24 16:58:04 2013 (r41037) @@ -156,9 +156,9 @@ <listitem> <para>By default &os; does not force users to change their - passwords periodically. This can be enforced on a - per-user basis, forcing some or all users to change their - passwords after a certain amount of time has + passwords periodically. Password expiration can be + enforced on a per-user basis, forcing some or all users to + change their passwords after a certain amount of time has elapsed.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -683,9 +683,10 @@ passwd: done</screen> <secondary>quotas</secondary> </indexterm> <indexterm><primary>disk quotas</primary></indexterm> - <para>Disk quotas limit disk usage to users and provide a way to - quickly check that usage without calculating it every time. - Quotas are discussed in <link linkend="quotas"></link>.</para> + <para>Disk quotas limit the amount of disk space available to + users and provide a way to quickly check that usage without + calculating it every time. Quotas are discussed in <link + linkend="quotas"></link>.</para> <para>The other resource limits include ways to limit the amount of CPU, memory, and other resources a user may consume. These @@ -705,7 +706,7 @@ passwd: done</screen> identifier and <replaceable>value</replaceable> is an arbitrary string which is processed accordingly depending on the <replaceable>name</replaceable>. Setting up login classes and - capabilities is rather straight-forward and is also described in + capabilities is rather straightforward and is also described in &man.login.conf.5;.</para> <note> @@ -825,8 +826,8 @@ passwd: done</screen> <para>The maximum amount of memory a process may request to be locked into main memory using &man.mlock.2;. Some system-critical programs, such as &man.amd.8;, lock into - main memory so that in the event of being swapped out, - they do not contribute to disk thrashing.</para> + main memory so that if the system begins to swap, they do + not contribute to disk thrashing.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -852,7 +853,7 @@ passwd: done</screen> <indexterm><primary>limiting users</primary> <secondary>openfiles</secondary> </indexterm> - <para>The maximum amount of files a process may have open. + <para>The maximum number of files a process may have open. In &os;, files are used to represent sockets and IPC channels, so be careful not to set this too low. The system-wide limit for this is defined by the
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