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authorSheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>2000-03-01 12:20:22 +0000
committerSheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>2000-03-01 12:20:22 +0000
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Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality
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@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ in the format used by
.Xr crypt 3 ,
as an argument.
.It Fl e Ar expiretime
-Change the account expire time. This option is used to set the expire time
+Change the account expire time.
+This option is used to set the expire time
from a script as if it was done in the interactive editor.
.It Fl s Ar newshell
Attempt to change the user's shell to
@@ -259,7 +260,8 @@ Currently,
can only make changes to the NIS passwd maps through
.Xr rpc.yppasswdd 8 ,
which normally only permits changes to a user's password, shell and GECOS
-fields. Except when invoked by the super-user on the NIS master server,
+fields.
+Except when invoked by the super-user on the NIS master server,
.Nm
(and, similarly,
.Xr passwd 1 )
@@ -270,7 +272,8 @@ add new records to the NIS passwd maps.
Furthermore,
.Xr rpc.yppasswdd 8
requires password authentication before it will make any
-changes. The only user allowed to submit changes without supplying
+changes.
+The only user allowed to submit changes without supplying
a password is the super-user on the NIS master server; all other users,
including those with root privileges on NIS clients (and NIS slave
servers) must enter a password.
@@ -308,7 +311,8 @@ change any field.
.Em "Password authentication is required" .
.Nm Chpass
will prompt for the user's NIS password before effecting
-any changes. If the password is invalid, all changes will be
+any changes.
+If the password is invalid, all changes will be
discarded.
.Pp
Exception: the super-user on the NIS master server is allowed to
@@ -345,7 +349,8 @@ Users should use
.Xr passwd 1
or
.Xr yppasswd 1
-to change their NIS passwords. The super-user is allowed to specify
+to change their NIS passwords.
+The super-user is allowed to specify
a new password (even though the
.Dq Password:
field does not show
@@ -381,20 +386,24 @@ Specify a particular NIS domain.
.Nm Chpass
uses the system domain name by default, as set by the
.Xr domainname 1
-command. The
+command.
+The
.Fl d
option can be used to override a default, or to specify a domain
when the system domain name is not set.
.It Fl h Ar host
-Specify the name or address of an NIS server to query. Normally,
+Specify the name or address of an NIS server to query.
+Normally,
.Nm
will communicate with the NIS master host specified in the
.Pa master.passwd
or
.Pa passwd
-maps. On hosts that have not been configured as NIS clients, there is
+maps.
+On hosts that have not been configured as NIS clients, there is
no way for the program to determine this information unless the user
-provides the hostname of a server. Note that the specified hostname need
+provides the hostname of a server.
+Note that the specified hostname need
not be that of the NIS master server; the name of any server, master or
slave, in a given NIS domain will do.
.Pp
@@ -422,7 +431,8 @@ domain socket). The
.Fl o
flag can be used to force
.Nm
-to use the standard update mechanism instead. This option is provided
+to use the standard update mechanism instead.
+This option is provided
mainly for testing purposes.
.El
.Pp