Author: bjk (doc committer)
Date: Fri Jul 6 03:56:45 2012
New Revision: 238162
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/238162
Log:
MFC r237581:
Explicitly mention that setting the change and expiry times to zero is
equivalent to leaving the time unset. [1]
Wordsmith in the compat support section.
Use a full path to nologin(8) in the context of setting it as a user's
shell,
keeping a separate cross-reference.
PR: docs/169354 [1]
Approved by: re (hrs), hrs (mentor)
Modified:
stable/9/share/man/man5/passwd.5
Directory Properties:
stable/9/share/man/man5/ (props changed)
Modified: stable/9/share/man/man5/passwd.5
==============================================================================
--- stable/9/share/man/man5/passwd.5 Fri Jul 6 03:44:40 2012
(r238161)
+++ stable/9/share/man/man5/passwd.5 Fri Jul 6 03:56:45 2012
(r238162)
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
.\" From: @(#)passwd.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd May 8, 2007
+.Dd June 23, 2012
.Dt PASSWD 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -203,7 +203,8 @@ field is the number of seconds from the
.Dv UTC ,
until the
password for the account must be changed.
-This field may be left empty to turn off the password aging feature.
+This field may be left empty to turn off the password aging feature;
+a value of zero is equivalent to leaving the field empty.
.Pp
The
.Ar expire
@@ -211,7 +212,8 @@ field is the number of seconds from the
.Dv UTC ,
until the
account expires.
-This field may be left empty to turn off the account aging feature.
+This field may be left empty to turn off the account aging feature;
+a value of zero is equivalent to leaving the field empty.
.Pp
The
.Ar gecos
@@ -271,7 +273,8 @@ as it is done for system accounts,
is to set its
.Ar shell
to
-.Xr nologin 8 .
+.Pa /sbin/nologin
+.Pq see Xr nologin 8 .
.Sh HESIOD SUPPORT
If
.Sq Li dns
@@ -363,7 +366,7 @@ fields, the specified numbers will overr
from the Hesiod domain or the
.Tn NIS
maps.
-As well, if the
+Likewise, if the
.Ar gecos ,
.Ar dir
or
@@ -399,7 +402,8 @@ The additional fields
.Ar change
and
.Ar expire
-are added, but are turned off by default.
+are added, but are turned off by default
+.Pq setting these fields to zero is equivalent to leaving them blank .
Class is currently not implemented, but change and expire are; to set them,
use the current day in seconds from the epoch + whatever number of seconds
of offset you want.
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