On Aug 6 21:21, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > >> When I try to display the man page for /bin/passwd, the man page for > >> the openssl passwd subcommand is displayed. > >> > >> It appears that both the package containing /bin/passwd, and the > >> openssl package place the passwd.1.gz file in the /usr/share/man/man1 > >> directory, so that only the man page from the most recently installed > >> package is displayed. > > > No, the Cygwin passwd tool has no man page. > > That's sad. Can we change it?
Would you like to take over maintainance of the cygwin-doc package? It's orphaned and in desperate need of an active maintainer. > > The documentation is only in the User's Guide: > > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#passwd > > While reading the page, I've noticed a discrepancy in options synopsis > and further description of the tool operation. > Namely, options --minage, --maxage parameter spelled as "DAYS", while down the > text they are referred to as MINDAYS and MAXDAYS. > I suggest changing the options description to match the text, as that it'll > make more sense. Good idea, fixed in CVS. > Also, the paragraph "All operations affecting the current user" is missing a > "$" sign in reference to environment variable LOGONSERVER. No, that's deliberate at this point. > The phrase "to enter a password which" is probably missing a comma. Hmm, not sure. The English language is pretty lazy in terms of punctuation characters. > Other question is relevance of a requirement "to run cygserver as a service > under the LocalSystem account" for modern times. That's ok. The cygserver service typically runs as SYSTEM. > Slightly unrelated question. I've noticed, that if a paragraph in source file > have line break after a period, the page is rendered with two spaces between > a period and first letter of next sentence, even though there's only one > character (a linefeed) exists. No stray spaces, no CR's. Is this intended? Yes, for the English language. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing#French_and_English_spacing Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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