Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 23:10:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/55298: typo in the man page for pw Message-ID: <200308060610.h766AJAD044712@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/55298; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Rich Gorasso <rgorasso@sentex.net> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/55298: typo in the man page for pw Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:02:36 +0300 On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 06:08:19PM -0400, Rich Gorasso wrote: > > >Number: 55298 > >Category: docs > >Synopsis: typo in the man page for pw > >Originator: Rich Gorasso > >Release: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386 > >Organization: > Sentex Communications > >Environment: > System: FreeBSD granite.sentex.ca 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #1: Wed May 21 16:40:30 EDT 2003 damian@newgranite.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/granite i386 > > >Description: > The man page for pw reads "pw useradd", "pw userdel", "pw groupadd" etc but it really should read "pw user add", "pw user del", "pw group add" etc. It's just a typo no big deal because if you do a "pw help" it show you the correct syntax. Thanks for your time. > >How-To-Repeat: > Type 'man pw'. Read. > >Fix: > > Insert spaces where appropriate. [roam@straylight ~]> sudo pw useradd testuser otp-md5 372 stray ext Password: [roam@straylight ~]> finger testuser Login: testuser Name: User Testuser Directory: /home/testuser Shell: /bin/sh Never logged in. No Mail. No Plan. [roam@straylight ~]> sudo pw userdel testuser [roam@straylight ~]> finger testuser finger: testuser: no such user [roam@straylight ~]> Seems just fine to me the way it is... Take a look a little further down in the pw(8) manual page, at the start of the second paragraph of the description, where it says: The first one or two keywords provided to pw on the command line provide the context for the remainder of the arguments. The keywords user and group may be combined with add, del, mod, show, or next in any order. (For example, showuser, usershow, show user, and user show all mean the same thing.) Thus, pw(8) honors most of the syntax that could come to one's mind :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@sbnd.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If this sentence didn't exist, somebody would have invented it.
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