svn commit: r41145 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/internal

Peter Wemm peter at FreeBSD.org
Sat Mar 9 19:52:23 UTC 2013


Author: peter (src committer)
Date: Sat Mar  9 19:52:22 2013
New Revision: 41145
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41145

Log:
  Update the new-account page to not ask for a master.passwd line.  We don't
  use that anymore.  Mention UTF-8 with a caution.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/internal/new-account.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/internal/new-account.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/internal/new-account.xml	Sat Mar  9 13:34:03 2013	(r41144)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/internal/new-account.xml	Sat Mar  9 19:52:22 2013	(r41145)
@@ -73,11 +73,18 @@
     and send the following information to accounts@:</p>
 
   <ul>
-    <li><p><tt>master.passwd</tt> line containing preferred username,
-      shell, and GECOS info (no password is needed)</p></li>
+    <li><p>username (lowercase a-z and 0-9)<p></li>
+    <li><p>Full Name (as would go in a GECOS field)<p></li>
+    <li><p>optional additional GECOS information (phone, location etc)<p></li>
+    <li><p>shell (sh, csh/tcsh, bash, zsh are available)<p></li>
     <li><p>ssh V2 public key (<strong>version 2 ONLY</strong>)</p></li>
   </ul>
 
+  <p>Any non-ASCII characters for the <em>Full Name</em> field should be encoded
+    in UTF-8.  Be aware that we have very limited support for this and caution
+    that they are likely to be frequently corrupted.  The number of characters
+    should kept to a minimum.</p>
+
   <p>The mentor is responsible for obtaining this information from the
     new committer in a secure fashion, and providing it to accounts@ in
     a secure fashion.  PGP-signed email, with the mentor's public key


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