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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2000-11-10 17:46:15 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2000-11-10 17:46:15 +0000
commita6f5d950d860b642619fd71c1efc1875f906cc17 (patch)
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parent48c9ea08a6fa4c9c3d612d66b001208c85107546 (diff)
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Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/passwd')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/passwd/passwd.121
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 b/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1
index 06d6bec..a036a2c 100644
--- a/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1
+++ b/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1
@@ -64,8 +64,7 @@ prompts for the new password twice in order to detect typing errors.
The new password should be at least six characters long (which
may be overridden using the
.Xr login.conf 5
-.if t ``minpasswordlen''
-.if n "minpasswordlen"
+.Dq minpasswordlen
setting for a user's login class) and not purely alphabetic.
Its total length must be less than
.Dv _PASSWORD_LEN
@@ -74,8 +73,7 @@ Its total length must be less than
The new password should contain a mixture of upper and lower case
characters (which may be overridden using the
.Xr login.conf 5
-.if t ``mixpasswordcase''
-.if n "mixpasswordcase"
+.Dq mixpasswordcase
setting for a user's login class). Allowing lower case passwords may
be useful where the password file will be used in situations where only
lower case passwords are permissible, such as when using Samba to
@@ -97,8 +95,7 @@ is used to update the password databases.
.El
When changing local or NIS password, the next password change date
is set according to
-.if t ``passwordtime''
-.if n "passwordtime"
+.Dq passwordtime
capability in the user's login class.
.Pp
To change another user's Kerberos password, one must first
@@ -115,8 +112,7 @@ If a user exists in the NIS password
database but does not exist locally,
.Nm passwd
automatically switches into
-.if t ``yppasswd''
-.if n "yppasswd"
+.Dq yppasswd
mode.
If the specified
user does not exist in either the local password database of the
@@ -153,14 +149,12 @@ When NIS is enabled, the
flag can be used to force
.Nm passwd
into
-.if t ``local only''
-.if n "local only"
+.Dq local only
mode.
This flag can be used to change the entry
for a local user when an NIS user exists with the same login name.
For example, you will sometimes find entries for system
-.if t ``placeholder''
-.if n "placeholder"
+.Dq placeholder
users such as
.Pa bin
or
@@ -200,8 +194,7 @@ option and
is unable to determine the name of the NIS master server (possibly because
the local domainname isn't set), the name of the NIS master is assumed to
be
-.if t ``localhost''.
-.if n "localhost".
+.Dq localhost .
This can be overridden with the
.Fl h
flag.
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