[Pkg-shadow-commits] r1379 - in upstream/trunk: . man
nekral-guest at alioth.debian.org
nekral-guest at alioth.debian.org
Sat Nov 17 18:13:17 UTC 2007
Author: nekral-guest
Date: 2007-11-17 18:13:17 +0000 (Sat, 17 Nov 2007)
New Revision: 1379
Modified:
upstream/trunk/ChangeLog
upstream/trunk/man/groupadd.8.xml
upstream/trunk/man/useradd.8.xml
Log:
Fixes from Openwall patch shadow-4.0.4.1-alt-man.diff:
* man/useradd.8.xml: Indicate that the NIS caveats is also valid
for any external database as LDAP.
* man/groupadd.8.xml: Likewise.
* man/groupadd.8.xml: Reorder and reformat the caveats bullets.
Modified: upstream/trunk/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- upstream/trunk/ChangeLog 2007-11-17 17:47:02 UTC (rev 1378)
+++ upstream/trunk/ChangeLog 2007-11-17 18:13:17 UTC (rev 1379)
@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@
2007-11-17 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois at centraliens.net>
+ Fixes from Openwall patch shadow-4.0.4.1-alt-man.diff:
+ * man/useradd.8.xml: Indicate that the NIS caveats is also valid
+ for any external database as LDAP.
+ * man/groupadd.8.xml: Likewise.
+ * man/groupadd.8.xml: Reorder and reformat the caveats bullets.
+
+2007-11-17 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois at centraliens.net>
+
+ * NEWS: Applied Debian patch 409_man_generate_from_PO to
+ automatically generate the translated manpages from the POs.
+ * man/Makefile.am: Replace the individual rules for the generation
+ of the manpages (from XML) by a generic Makefile rule an
+ dependencies for the linked manpages.
+
+2007-11-17 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois at centraliens.net>
+
* man/chpasswd.8.xml: Document that chpasswd does not use PAM to
update the passwords. This fixes http://bugs.debian.org/396726.
Debian patch 411_chpasswd_document_no_pam.
Modified: upstream/trunk/man/groupadd.8.xml
===================================================================
--- upstream/trunk/man/groupadd.8.xml 2007-11-17 17:47:02 UTC (rev 1378)
+++ upstream/trunk/man/groupadd.8.xml 2007-11-17 18:13:17 UTC (rev 1379)
@@ -136,16 +136,23 @@
<refsect1 id='caveats'>
<title>CAVEATS</title>
- <para>Groupnames must begin with a lower case letter or an underscore, and
- only lower case letters, underscores, dashes, and dollar signs may
- follow. In regular expression terms: [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]
+ <para>
+ Groupnames must begin with a lower case letter or an underscore,
+ and only lower case letters, underscores, dashes, and dollar signs
+ may follow. In regular expression terms: [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]
</para>
<para>
- If the groupname already exists in an external group database
- such as NIS, <command>groupadd</command> will deny the group
+ Groupnames may only be up to 16 characters long.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You may not add a NIS or LDAP group. This must be performed on the
+ corresponding server.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If the groupname already exists in an external group database such
+ as NIS or LDAP, <command>groupadd</command> will deny the group
creation request.
</para>
- <para>Groupnames may only be up to 16 characters long.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id='exit_values'>
Modified: upstream/trunk/man/useradd.8.xml
===================================================================
--- upstream/trunk/man/useradd.8.xml 2007-11-17 17:47:02 UTC (rev 1378)
+++ upstream/trunk/man/useradd.8.xml 2007-11-17 18:13:17 UTC (rev 1379)
@@ -350,13 +350,13 @@
<refsect1 id='caveats'>
<title>CAVEATS</title>
<para>
- You may not add a user to a NIS group. This must be performed on the
- NIS server.
+ You may not add a user to a NIS or LDAP group. This must be
+ performed on the corresponding server.
</para>
<para>
Similarly, if the username already exists in an external user
- database such as NIS, <command>useradd</command> will deny
+ database such as NIS or LDAP, <command>useradd</command> will deny
the user account creation request.
</para>
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