[Pkg-shadow-commits] r1987 - in upstream/trunk: . man
nekral-guest at alioth.debian.org
nekral-guest at alioth.debian.org
Mon May 19 20:53:13 UTC 2008
Author: nekral-guest
Date: 2008-05-19 20:53:12 +0000 (Mon, 19 May 2008)
New Revision: 1987
Modified:
upstream/trunk/ChangeLog
upstream/trunk/NEWS
upstream/trunk/man/groupadd.8.xml
upstream/trunk/man/newusers.8.xml
upstream/trunk/man/useradd.8.xml
Log:
* NEWS, man/groupadd.8.xml: Document the -r, --system option.
* NEWS, man/newusers.8.xml: Document the -r, --system option.
* NEWS, man/newusers.8.xml: Document the -c, --crypt-method and
-s, --sha-rounds options.
Modified: upstream/trunk/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- upstream/trunk/ChangeLog 2008-05-19 20:31:48 UTC (rev 1986)
+++ upstream/trunk/ChangeLog 2008-05-19 20:53:12 UTC (rev 1987)
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
2008-05-19 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois at centraliens.net>
* NEWS, man/useradd.8.xml: Document the -r, --system option.
+ * NEWS, man/groupadd.8.xml: Document the -r, --system option.
+ * NEWS, man/newusers.8.xml: Document the -r, --system option.
+ * NEWS, man/newusers.8.xml: Document the -c, --crypt-method and
+ -s, --sha-rounds options.
2008-05-18 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois at centraliens.net>
Modified: upstream/trunk/NEWS
===================================================================
--- upstream/trunk/NEWS 2008-05-19 20:31:48 UTC (rev 1986)
+++ upstream/trunk/NEWS 2008-05-19 20:53:12 UTC (rev 1987)
@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@
* Resume properly after ^Z.
*** documentation:
-- Document the -r, --system option in the useradd manpage.
+- Document the -r, --system option in the useradd, groupadd, and newusers
+ manpages.
+- Document the -c, --crypt-method and -s, --sha-rounds options in the
+ newusers manpage.
shadow-4.1.0 -> shadow-4.1.1 02-04-2008
Modified: upstream/trunk/man/groupadd.8.xml
===================================================================
--- upstream/trunk/man/groupadd.8.xml 2008-05-19 20:31:48 UTC (rev 1986)
+++ upstream/trunk/man/groupadd.8.xml 2008-05-19 20:53:12 UTC (rev 1987)
@@ -126,6 +126,22 @@
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-r</option>, <option>--system</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Create a system group.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The numeric identifiers of new system groups are choosen in
+ the <option>SYS_GID_MIN</option>-<option>SYS_GID_MAX</option>
+ range, defined in <filename>login.defs</filename>, instead of
+ <option>GID_MIN</option>-<option>GID_MAX</option>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
Modified: upstream/trunk/man/newusers.8.xml
===================================================================
--- upstream/trunk/man/newusers.8.xml 2008-05-19 20:31:48 UTC (rev 1986)
+++ upstream/trunk/man/newusers.8.xml 2008-05-19 20:53:12 UTC (rev 1987)
@@ -94,6 +94,68 @@
</para>
</refsect1>
+ <refsect1 id='options'>
+ <title>OPTIONS</title>
+ <para>The options which apply to the <command>newusers</command> command are:
+ </para>
+ <variablelist remap='IP'>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-c</option>, <option>--crypt-method</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Use the specified method to encrypt the passwords.</para>
+ <para>
+ The available methods are DES, MD5, NONE, and SHA256 or SHA512
+ if your libc support these methods.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-r</option>, <option>--system</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Create a system account.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ System users will be created with no aging information in
+ <filename>/etc/shadow</filename>, and their numeric
+ identifiers are choosen in the
+ <option>SYS_UID_MIN</option>-<option>SYS_UID_MAX</option>
+ range, defined in <filename>login.defs</filename>, instead of
+ <option>UID_MIN</option>-<option>UID_MAX</option> (and their
+ <option>GID</option> counterparts for the creation of groups).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry condition="sha_crypt">
+ <term><option>-s</option>, <option>--sha-rounds</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Use the specified number of rounds to encrypt the passwords.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The value 0 means that the system will choose the default
+ number of rounds for the crypt method (5000).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ A minimal value of 1000 and a maximal value of 999,999,999
+ will be enforced.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You can only use this option with the SHA256 or SHA512
+ crypt method.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ By default, the number of rounds is defined by the
+ SHA_CRYPT_MIN_ROUNDS and SHA_CRYPT_MAX_ROUNDS variables in
+ <filename>/etc/login.defs</filename>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
<refsect1 id='caveats'>
<title>CAVEATS</title>
<para>
Modified: upstream/trunk/man/useradd.8.xml
===================================================================
--- upstream/trunk/man/useradd.8.xml 2008-05-19 20:31:48 UTC (rev 1986)
+++ upstream/trunk/man/useradd.8.xml 2008-05-19 20:53:12 UTC (rev 1987)
@@ -291,9 +291,10 @@
</para>
<para>
System users will be created with no aging information in
- <filename>/etc/shadow</filename>, and will use the
+ <filename>/etc/shadow</filename>, and their numeric
+ identifiers are choosen in the
<option>SYS_UID_MIN</option>-<option>SYS_UID_MAX</option>
- range for their user's ID instead of
+ range, defined in <filename>login.defs</filename>, instead of
<option>UID_MIN</option>-<option>UID_MAX</option> (and their
<option>GID</option> counterparts for the creation of groups).
</para>
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