From: nekral-guest Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:13:17 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Fixes from Openwall patch shadow-4.0.4.1-alt-man.diff: X-Git-Tag: 4.1.0~96 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a9f2f60c687ec4340469101b27d41c2448270592;p=shadow 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. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index f93bc50e..85deae61 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,19 @@ +2007-11-17 Nicolas François + + 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 + + * 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 * man/chpasswd.8.xml: Document that chpasswd does not use PAM to diff --git a/man/groupadd.8.xml b/man/groupadd.8.xml index b5c93e11..5b93279e 100644 --- a/man/groupadd.8.xml +++ b/man/groupadd.8.xml @@ -136,16 +136,23 @@ CAVEATS - 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_-]*[$] + + Groupnames must begin with a lower case letter or an underscore, + and only lower case letters, underscores, dashes, and dollar signs + may follow. In regular expression terms: [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$] + + + Groupnames may only be up to 16 characters long. + + + You may not add a NIS or LDAP group. This must be performed on the + corresponding server. - If the groupname already exists in an external group database - such as NIS, groupadd will deny the group + If the groupname already exists in an external group database such + as NIS or LDAP, groupadd will deny the group creation request. - Groupnames may only be up to 16 characters long. diff --git a/man/useradd.8.xml b/man/useradd.8.xml index 5a985220..4a6dfb23 100644 --- a/man/useradd.8.xml +++ b/man/useradd.8.xml @@ -350,13 +350,13 @@ CAVEATS - 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. Similarly, if the username already exists in an external user - database such as NIS, useradd will deny + database such as NIS or LDAP, useradd will deny the user account creation request.