cannot display man page for /bin/passwd
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Aug 6 19:31:00 GMT 2014
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
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