svn commit: r44606 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security

Dru Lavigne dru at FreeBSD.org
Fri Apr 18 19:42:58 UTC 2014


Author: dru
Date: Fri Apr 18 19:42:57 2014
New Revision: 44606
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44606

Log:
  Fix some redundancy and title capitalization in Security chapter.
  
  Sponsored by:	iXsystems

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml	Fri Apr 18 17:35:05 2014	(r44605)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml	Fri Apr 18 19:42:57 2014	(r44606)
@@ -242,8 +242,8 @@
 	and even lock users into running only single, privileged
 	commands such as &man.service.8;</para>
 
-      <para>After installation, edit the
-	<filename>/usr/local/etc/sudoers</filename> file by using
+      <para>After installation, edit
+	<filename>/usr/local/etc/sudoers</filename> using
 	the <command>visudo</command> interface.  In this example,
 	a new webadmin group will be added, the user <systemitem
 	  class="username">trhodes</systemitem> to that group, and
@@ -322,9 +322,8 @@
 	  also enforce mixed characters.  In particular the
 	  &man.pam.passwdqc.8; will be discussed.</para>
 
-	<para>To proceed, open the
-	  <filename>/etc/pam.d/passwd</filename> file and add the
-	  following line to the file.</para>
+	<para>To proceed, add the following line to
+	  <filename>/etc/pam.d/passwd</filename>:</para>
 
 	<programlisting>password        requisite       pam_passwdqc.so         min=disabled,disabled,disabled,12,10 similar=deny retry=3 enforce=users</programlisting>
 
@@ -408,18 +407,18 @@ Enter new password:</programlisting>
       <para>A backdoor or rootkit software does do one thing useful
 	for administrators - once detected, it is a sign that a
 	compromise happened at some point.  But normally these types
-	types of applications are hidden very well.  Tools do exist
+	of applications are hidden very well.  Tools do exist
 	to detect backdoors and rootkits, one of them is
 	<package>security/rkhunter</package>.</para>
 
-      <para>After installation the system may be checked using the
-	following command which will produce a lot of
-	information:</para>
+      <para>After installation, the system may be checked using the
+	following command.  It will produce a lot of
+	information and will require some manual
+	pressing of the <keycap>ENTER</keycap> key:</para>
 
       <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>rkhunter -c</userinput></screen>
 
-      <para>After the process complete, which will require some manual
-	pressing of the <keycap>ENTER</keycap> key, a status message
+      <para>After the process completes, a status message
 	will be printed to the screen.  This message will include the
 	amount of files checked, suspect files, possible rootkits, and
 	more.  During the check, some generic security warnings may
@@ -477,8 +476,8 @@ Enter new password:</programlisting>
 
       <screen>&prompt.root; mtree: /bin checksum: 3427012225</screen>
 
-      <para>Viewing the <filename>bin_cksum_mtree</filename> file
-	should yield output similar to the following as well:</para>
+      <para>Viewing <filename>bin_cksum_mtree</filename>
+	should yield output similar to the following:</para>
 
       <programlisting>#          user: root
 #       machine: dreadnaught
@@ -518,8 +517,8 @@ Enter new password:</programlisting>
 	was originally ran.  Since no changes occurred in the time
 	these commands were ran, the
 	<filename>bin_chksum_output</filename> output will be empty.
-	To simulate a change, change the date on the
-	<filename>/bin/cat</filename> file using &man.touch.1; and run
+	To simulate a change, change the date on
+	<filename>/bin/cat</filename> using &man.touch.1; and run
 	the verification command again:</para>
 
       <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>touch /bin/cat</userinput></screen>
@@ -1264,7 +1263,7 @@ Aug 27 15:37:58  Aug 28 01:37:58  krbtgt
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2>
-      <title>Configuring a Server to use
+      <title>Configuring a Server to Use
 	<application>Kerberos</application></title>
 
       <indexterm>
@@ -1356,7 +1355,7 @@ kadmin><userinput> exit</userinput></
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2>
-      <title>Configuring a Client to use
+      <title>Configuring a Client to Use
 	<application>Kerberos</application></title>
 
       <indexterm>
@@ -2899,7 +2898,7 @@ user at unfirewalled-system.example.org's p
       </note>
 
       <tip>
-	<para>Don't confuse <filename>/etc/ssh/sshd_config</filename>
+	<para>Do not confuse <filename>/etc/ssh/sshd_config</filename>
 	  with <filename>/etc/ssh/ssh_config</filename> (note the
 	  extra <literal>d</literal> in the first filename).  The
 	  first file configures the server and the second file


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