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Date:      Sun, 17 Sep 2000 00:48:27 -0500
From:      "Peter Avalos" <pavalos@theshell.com>
To:        <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Cc:        <sheldonh@freebsd.org>
Subject:   passwd.1
Message-ID:  <AAEMIFFLKPKLAOJHJANHEEILCFAA.pavalos@theshell.com>

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I don't know who to contact about this, so I'm hoping some people subscribed
to this list have commit access. I found some spelling errors in passwd(1)
manpage. I have RELENG_4 installed. Here's the output of diff -u:

--- /usr/src/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1    Wed Mar  1 04:20:07 2000
+++ passwd.1    Sat Sep 16 22:33:16 2000
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 .if n "mixpasswordcase"
 setting for a user's login class).  Allowing lower case passwords may
 be useful where the password file will be used in situations where only
-lower case passwords are permissable, such as when using Samba to
+lower case passwords are permissible, such as when using Samba to
 authenticate Windows clients.  In all other situations, numbers, upper
 case letters and meta characters are encouraged.
 .Pp
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@
 an NIS server to also be a client) in which case the
 .Nm passwd
 command needs to be told what domain to operate on.
-.It Fl s Ar host
+.It Fl h Ar host
 Specify the name of an NIS server.
 This option, in conjunction
 with the
@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@
 be
 .if t ``localhost''.
 .if n "localhost".
-This can be overidden with the
-.Fl s
+This can be overridden with the
+.Fl h
 flag.
 The specified hostname need not be the name of an NIS master: the
 name of the NIS master for a given map can be determined by querying any


If I'm composing to the wrong list, please let me know who I should contact
about errors like this.


Peter Avalos
TheShell.com

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