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Improve the wording of the section on comments in the group and passwd

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files.  Also mention that this feature is not enabled by default
and that they must be enabled by compile-time options.

Fixed another typo or two I noticed while I was at it.
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Mike Pritchard 1997-03-12 13:46:16 +00:00
parent e48ff1868b
commit f57cc79d87
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=23772
2 changed files with 17 additions and 11 deletions
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share/man/man5/group.5
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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" From: @(#)group.5 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\" $Id: group.5,v 1.9 1997/02/22 13:25:59 peter Exp $
.\" $Id: group.5,v 1.10 1997/03/09 12:20:47 wosch Exp $
.\"
.Dd September 29, 1994
.Dt GROUP 5
@ -59,9 +59,12 @@ The group's decimal ID.
Group members.
.El
.Pp
Lines whose first non-space/tab character is a pound-sign (#)
are comments, and are ignored. Blank lines - only spaces, tabs or
newline - are ignored too.
Lines whose first non-whitespace character is a pound-sign (#)
are comments, and are ignored. Blank lines which consist
only of spaces, tabs or newlines are also ignored. This feature
is not enabled by default in
.Tn FreeBSD
and must be configured by the administrator with compile-time options.
.Pp
The
.Ar group
@ -135,7 +138,7 @@ the function where they occurs; see section
In older implementations,
a group cannot have more than 200 members. The maximum line length of
.Pa /etc/group
is 1024 characters. Longer lines will be skiped.
is 1024 characters. Longer lines will be skipped.
This limitations disappeared in
.Fx 3.0 .
Older binaries which are statically linked, depend on old
@ -169,5 +172,5 @@ The YP/NIS functionality is modeled after
and first appeared in
.Tn FreeBSD
1.1.
Support for comments are appeared in
Support for comments first appeared in
.Fx 3.0 .

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share/man/man5/passwd.5
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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" From: @(#)passwd.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
.\" $Id: passwd.5,v 1.11 1997/02/22 13:26:05 peter Exp $
.\" $Id: passwd.5,v 1.12 1997/03/09 12:20:48 wosch Exp $
.\"
.Dd September 29, 1994
.Dt PASSWD 5
@ -70,9 +70,12 @@ User's home directory.
User's login shell.
.El
.Pp
Lines whose first non-space/tab character is a pound-sign (#)
are comments, and are ignored. Blank lines - only spaces, tabs or
newline - are ignored too.
Lines whose first non-whitespace character is a pound-sign (#)
are comments, and are ignored. Blank lines which consist
only of spaces, tabs or newlines are also ignored. This feature
is not enabled by default in
.Tn FreeBSD
and must be configured by the administrator with compile-time options.
.Pp
The
.Ar name
@ -604,5 +607,5 @@ and first appeared in
The override capability was updated to properly support netgroups
in
.Fx 2.0.5 .
Support for comments are appeared in
Support for comments first appeared in
.Fx 3.0 .