svn commit: r43327 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics
Taras Korenko
taras at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 13 08:29:33 UTC 2013
Author: taras
Date: Fri Dec 13 08:29:32 2013
New Revision: 43327
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43327
Log:
This patch does minor rewordings of "Users and Basic Account
Management" subchapter. Discussed with wblock in ML [1].
To be followed by a whitespace fix.
1. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2013-December/022936.html
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml Fri Dec 13 01:26:47 2013 (r43326)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml Fri Dec 13 08:29:32 2013 (r43327)
@@ -455,9 +455,9 @@ console none
used to uniquely identify the user to the &os; system.
Commands that allow a user name to be specified will
first convert it to the <acronym>UID</acronym>. It is
- recommended to use a UID of 65535 or lower as higher
- UIDs may cause compatibility issues with software that
- does not support integers larger than 32-bits.</para>
+ recommended to use a UID less than 65535, since higher
+ values may cause compatibility issues with some
+ software.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ console none
mechanism that provide additional flexibility when
tailoring the system to different users. Login
classes are discussed further in
- <xref linkend="users-limiting"/></para>
+ <xref linkend="users-limiting"/>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ console none
<para>The user name uniquely identifies the account to
&os;, but does not necessarily reflect the user's real
name. Similar to a comment, this information can
- contain a space, uppercase characters, and be more
+ contain spaces, uppercase characters, and be more
than 8 characters long.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -637,11 +637,11 @@ Password:
<para>&os; provides a variety of different commands to manage
user accounts. The most common commands are summarized in
- Table 4.1, followed by some examples of their usage. Refer to
+ <xref linkend="users-modifying-utilities"/>, followed by some examples of their usage. See
the manual page for each utility for more details and usage
examples.</para>
- <table frame="none" pgwide="1">
+ <table frame="none" pgwide="1" xml:id="users-modifying-utilities">
<title>Utilities for Managing User Accounts</title>
<tgroup cols="2">
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ Password:
<filename>/usr/share/skel</filename>, and can optionally
mail the new user a welcome message. This utility must be
run as the
- <systemitem class="username">superuser</systemitem>.</para>
+ superuser.</para>
<para>The &man.adduser.8; utility is interactive and walks
through the steps for creating a new user account. As seen
@@ -724,8 +724,8 @@ Password:
shown in square brackets. In this example, the user has
been invited into the
<systemitem class="groupname">wheel</systemitem> group,
- which is required to provide the account with superuser
- access. When finished, the utility will prompt to either
+ allowing them to become the superuser with &man.su.1;.
+ When finished, the utility will prompt to either
create another user or to exit.</para>
<example xml:id="users-modifying-adduser">
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