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authorjdp <jdp@FreeBSD.org>1998-08-05 23:42:10 +0000
committerjdp <jdp@FreeBSD.org>1998-08-05 23:42:10 +0000
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Correct the description of skeyaccess(). It determines whether Unix
passwords are permitted, not whether S/Key passwords are permitted. This manual page could use a good going over.
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diff --git a/lib/libskey/skey.3 b/lib/libskey/skey.3
index 234d0b2..8fc1a01 100644
--- a/lib/libskey/skey.3
+++ b/lib/libskey/skey.3
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $Id: skey.3,v 1.6 1997/03/19 01:33:23 bde Exp $
+.\" $Id: skey.3,v 1.7 1998/03/19 07:34:16 charnier Exp $
.\"
.Dd December 22, 1996
.Dt SKEY 3
@@ -135,10 +135,12 @@ UNIX password (namely, a string containing ":").
.Pp
The
.Fn skeyaccess
-function determines whether s/key passwords are permitted for any
-combination of user name, group member, terminal port, host name or
-network.
-See
+function determines whether traditional UNIX (non-S/Key) passwords
+are permitted for any combination of user name, group member,
+terminal port, host name, and network. If UNIX passwords are allowed,
+.Fn skeyaccess
+returns a non-zero value. If UNIX passwords are not allowed, it
+returns 0. See
.Xr skey.access 5
for more information on the layout and structure of the
skey.access configuration file which this function uses.
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