Bug#463016: typos in saslauthd man page

Thijs Kinkhorst thijs at debian.org
Mon Jan 28 22:08:09 UTC 2008


Package: sasl2-bin
Version: 2.1.22.dfsg1-8
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hi,

The saslauthd(8) man page contains some typos, attached patch fixes
them. One is a change from American to British English, this was done
because the rest of the man page seems to use British.


Thijs

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages sasl2-bin depends on:
ii  lib 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4                    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lib 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1 common error description library
ii  lib 4.2.52+dfsg-2                        Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  lib 1.4.4-7etch4                         MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  lib 2.1.30-13.3                          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  lib 0.79-5                               Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  lib 2.1.22.dfsg1-8                       Authentication abstraction library
ii  lib 0.9.8c-4etch1                        SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb 3.1-23.2etch1                        Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

sasl2-bin recommends no packages.

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diff -Nur cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22.dfsg1/debian/changelog cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22.dfsg1.new/debian/changelog
--- cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22.dfsg1/debian/changelog	2008-01-28 23:02:31.000000000 +0100
+++ cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22.dfsg1.new/debian/changelog	2008-01-28 22:59:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+cyrus-sasl2 (2.1.22.dfsg1-9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * 
+
+ -- root <root at aphrodite.kinkhorst.nl>  Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:59:40 +0100
+
 cyrus-sasl2 (2.1.22.dfsg1-8) unstable; urgency=high
 
   [ Fabian Fagerholm ]
diff -Nur cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22.dfsg1/saslauthd/saslauthd.8 cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22.dfsg1.new/saslauthd/saslauthd.8
--- cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22.dfsg1/saslauthd/saslauthd.8	2006-05-18 20:05:38.000000000 +0200
+++ cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22.dfsg1.new/saslauthd/saslauthd.8	2008-01-28 23:04:35.000000000 +0100
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 
      -H hostname
              The remote host to be contacted by the rimap authentication mech-
-             anism. (Depricated, use -O instead)
+             anism. (Deprecated, use -O instead)
 
      -m path
              Use path as the pathname to the named socket to listen on for
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
              Use threads processes for responding to authentication queries.
              (default: 5)  A value of zero will indicate that saslauthd should
              fork an individual process for each connection.  This can solve
-             leaks that occur in some deployments..
+             leaks that occur in some deployments.
 
      -s size
              Use size as the table size of the hash table (in kilobytes)
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 
      -h      Show usage information
 
-     -c      Enable cacheing of authentication credentials
+     -c      Enable caching of authentication credentials
 
      -l      Disable the use of a lock file for controlling access to
              accept().
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
      -r      Combine the realm with the login (with an '@' sign in between).
              e.g.  login: "foo" realm: "bar" will get passed as login:
              "foo at bar".  Note that the realm will still be passed, which may
-             lead to unexpected behavior.
+             lead to unexpected behaviour.
 
      -v      Print the version number and available authentication mechanisms
              on standard error, then exit.
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
      -d      Debugging mode.
 
    Logging
-     saslauthd logs it's activities via syslogd using the LOG_AUTH facility.
+     saslauthd logs its activities via syslogd using the LOG_AUTH facility.
 
 AUTHENTICATION MECHANISMS
      saslauthd supports one or more "authentication mechanisms", dependent
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
 
                 Authenticate using the getpwent() library function. Typically
                 this authenticates against the local password file. See your
-                systems getpwent(3) man page for details.
+                system's getpwent(3) man page for details.
 
      kerberos4  (All platforms)
 
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
      sasldb     (All platforms)
 
                 Authenticate against the SASL authentication database.  Note
-                that this is probabally not what you want to be using, and is
+                that this is probably not what you want to use, and is
                 even disabled at compile-time by default.  If you want to use
                 sasldb with the SASL library, you probably want to use the
                 pwcheck_method of "auxprop" along with the sasldb auxprop plu-
diff -Nur cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22.dfsg1/saslauthd/saslauthd.mdoc cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22.dfsg1.new/saslauthd/saslauthd.mdoc
--- cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22.dfsg1/saslauthd/saslauthd.mdoc	2004-03-25 19:24:26.000000000 +0100
+++ cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22.dfsg1.new/saslauthd/saslauthd.mdoc	2008-01-28 23:03:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 .It Fl H Ar hostname
 The remote host to be contacted by the
 .Li rimap
-authentication mechanism. (Depricated, use -O instead)
+authentication mechanism. (Deprecated, use -O instead)
 .It Fl m Ar path
 Use
 .Ar path
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 processes for responding to authentication queries. (default: 5)  A
 value of zero will indicate that saslauthd should fork an individual
 process for each connection.  This can solve leaks that occur in some
-deployments..
+deployments.
 .It Fl s Ar size
 Use
 .Ar size
@@ -93,13 +93,13 @@
 .It Fl h
 Show usage information
 .It Fl c
-Enable cacheing of authentication credentials
+Enable caching of authentication credentials
 .It Fl l
 Disable the use of a lock file for controlling access to accept().
 .It Fl r
 Combine the realm with the login (with an '@' sign in between).  e.g.
 login: "foo" realm: "bar" will get passed as login: "foo at bar".  Note that
-the realm will still be passed, which may lead to unexpected behavior.
+the realm will still be passed, which may lead to unexpected behaviour.
 .It Fl v
 Print the version number and available authentication
 mechanisms on standard error, then exit.
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
 .El
 .Ss Logging
 .Nm
-logs it's activities via
+logs its activities via
 .Nm syslogd
 using the
 .Dv LOG_AUTH
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
 Authenticate using the
 .Fn getpwent
 library function. Typically this authenticates against the
-local password file. See your systems
+local password file. See your system's
 .Xr getpwent 3
 man page for details.
 .It Li kerberos4
@@ -207,8 +207,8 @@
 .Em (All platforms)
 .Pp
 Authenticate against the
-SASL authentication database.  Note that this is probabally not what you
-want to be using, and is even disabled at compile-time by default.
+SASL authentication database.  Note that this is probably not what you
+want to use, and is even disabled at compile-time by default.
 If you want to use sasldb with the SASL library, you probably want to
 use the pwcheck_method of "auxprop" along with the sasldb auxprop plugin
 instead.


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