From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 26 19:29:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5E28E3E3 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 19:29:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gamma.ukrhub.net (gamma.ukrhub.net [94.125.120.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC4032729 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 19:29:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gamma.ukrhub.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gamma.ukrhub.net (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id rAQJ6iTP025655 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:06:44 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ds@ukrhub.net) Received: (from ds@localhost) by gamma.ukrhub.net (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id rAQJ6i8K025654 for freebsd-doc@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:06:44 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ds@ukrhub.net) X-Authentication-Warning: gamma.ukrhub.net: ds set sender to ds@ukrhub.net using -f Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:06:44 +0200 From: Taras Korenko To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: en/handbook/users: proposed corrections Message-ID: <20131126190644.GC25578@gamma.ukrhub.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3oCie2+XPXTnK5a5" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list Reply-To: Taras Korenko List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 19:29:20 -0000 --3oCie2+XPXTnK5a5 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="0QFb0wBpEddLcDHQ" Content-Disposition: inline --0QFb0wBpEddLcDHQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-u Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Good day, doc@ folks. I'd like to introduce some corrections to handbook/users chapter. Howeve= r, there might be moot points, so any comments will be appreciated. Thanks. --=20 WBR, Taras Korenko --0QFb0wBpEddLcDHQ Content-Type: text/x-diff; charset=koi8-u Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="en.hb.users.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml (revision 43253) +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml (working copy) @@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ =20 The user name is typed at the login: - prompt. User names must be unique on the system as no two - users can have the same user name. There are a number of + prompt. User names must be unique on the system.=20 + There are a number of rules for creating valid user names, documented in &man.passwd.5;. Typically user names consist of eight or fewer all lower case characters in order to maintain @@ -91,9 +91,8 @@ Password =20 - Each account has an associated password. While the - password can be blank, this is highly discouraged and - every account should have a password. + Each account has an associated password. The password can be + blank, however this is highly discouraged. =20 @@ -149,7 +148,7 @@ =20 By default &os; does not force users to change their - passwords periodically. Password expiration can be + passwords. 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. @@ -377,7 +376,7 @@ /usr/share/skel skeleton directory - &man.adduser.8; is a simple program for adding new users + &man.adduser.8; is a simple program for adding new users. When a new user is added, this program automatically updates /etc/passwd and /etc/group. It also creates a home @@ -527,7 +526,7 @@ =20 When passed no options, aside from an optional username, &man.chpass.1; displays an editor containing user information. - When the user exists from the editor, the user database is + When the user exits from the editor, the user database is updated with the new information. =20 @@ -773,8 +772,7 @@ this limit too small may hinder a user's productivity as it is often useful to be logged in multiple times or to execute pipelines. Some tasks, such as compiling a large - program, spawn multiple processes and other intermediate - preprocessors. + program, spawn lots of processes. =20 @@ -818,7 +816,7 @@ =20 The limit on the amount of network memory, and - thus mbufssbsize= limiting userssbsize,= a user may consume in order to limit network + thus mbufssbsize= limiting userssbsize,= a user may consume. This can be generally used to limit network communications. @@ -960,7 +958,7 @@ In this example, the argument to is a comma-delimited list of users who are to be added to the group. Unlike the previous example, these users are appended to the - group list and do not replace the list of existing users in the + group and do not replace the list of existing users in the group. =20 --0QFb0wBpEddLcDHQ-- --3oCie2+XPXTnK5a5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlKU8UQACgkQ2DhU04rMxovmEgCfYKhFDBmG6jWIu4p3w3sc+Pok +uYAn2Uum2IrtToc3hYbyGAI/ngs5dg/ =aynT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3oCie2+XPXTnK5a5--