Remove useless .Pp. Typo: gcos -> gecos (as spelled in passwd(5)).

[pw-darwin.git] / adduser / adduser.8

diff --git a/adduser/adduser.8 b/adduser/adduser.8
index 6d4454ddf44af55cb62e30e4377a98eeac44dbf9..a87e6af5a85e180fb36cbbd820e81a04b38520a4 100644 (file)
--- a/adduser/adduser.8
+++ b/adduser/adduser.8
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .\" Copyright (c) 1995-1996 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>. Berlin.
 .\" All rights reserved.
-.\" Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Michael Telahun Makonnen <mtm@FreeBSD.Org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Michael Telahun Makonnen <mtm@FreeBSD.org>
 .\" All rights reserved.
 .\"
 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd August 14, 2002
+.Dd March 30, 2004
 .Dt ADDUSER 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -98,11 +98,13 @@ The
 .Ql \&:
 character is not allowed.
 .It shell
-Only valid shells from the shell database
+Unless the
+.Fl S
+argument is supplied only valid shells from the shell database
 .Pq Pa /etc/shells
 are allowed.
-In
-addition, only the base name of the shell is necessary, not the full path.
+In addition,
+either the base name or the full path of the shell may be supplied.
 .It UID
 Automatically generated or your choice.
 It must be less than 32000.
@@ -165,7 +167,7 @@ Home partition.
 Default partition, under which all user directories
 will be located.
 The
-.Pa /nonexistant
+.Pa /nonexistent
 partition is considered special.
 The
 .Nm
@@ -245,10 +247,10 @@ standard output.
 Default shell for new users.
 The
 .Ar shell
-argument must be the base name of the shell,
-.Em not
-the full path.
-It must exist in
+argument may be the base name of the shell or the full path.
+Unless the
+.Fl S
+argument is supplied the shell must exist in
 .Pa /etc/shells
 or be the special shell
 .Em nologin
@@ -372,7 +374,8 @@ is understood to mean that no home directory is to be
 created for the user.
 .It Ar shell
 Login shell.
-This field should contain the full path to a valid login shell.
+This field should contain either the base name or
+the full path to a valid login shell.
 .It Ar password
 User password.
 This field should contain a plaintext string, which will
@@ -422,6 +425,7 @@ logfile for
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr chpass 1 ,
 .Xr passwd 1 ,
+.Xr adduser.conf 5 ,
 .Xr aliases 5 ,
 .Xr group 5 ,
 .Xr login.conf 5 ,
@@ -464,5 +468,6 @@ In addition, shell special characters and operators will have to be
 escaped when used in the message file.
 .Pp
 Also, password ageing and account expiry times are currently setable
-only in batch mode.
+only in batch mode or when specified in
+.Pa /etc/adduser.conf .
 The user should be able to set them in interactive mode as well.