Missing "-l" option from pw(8) USER section

Luchesar V. ILIEV luchesar.iliev at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 22:36:26 UTC 2011


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Hi everyone,

Apologies if that has been discussed before; the search didn't yield
anything useful, but I might have missed something.

I noticed today that the "-l" option is missing from pw.8 man page, at
least in HEAD, stable/9 and stable/8. The option is mentioned in the
SYNOPSIS, but there's no information about it in the USER OPTIONS
section, unlike the respective option in GROUP OPTIONS.

I went briefly through both pw.8's and pw.c's history, but could not
find any clues. The option itself is working as expected, and pw.c's
short help also mentions it, so I assume it somehow got overlooked,
rather than being intentionally omitted.

If that's indeed the case, I'm attaching a dirty patch, but please
bear in mind that I've never worked with roff documents before, so
don't get too mad at me if it's not quite all right (it seemed to
produce a fine output in man(1), at least).

Cheers,
Luchesar

P.S. I inserted the information between the userdel and usershow
notes, because that seems to be the order in SYNOPSIS. The text itself
is shamelessly stolen from the GROUP OPTIONS section; it's pretty
brief, but probably enough. I guess the whole page might benefit from
some examples, but that's obviously a separate topic for discussion.

- -- 
i.dea.is/luchesar

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