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authorJan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>2014-08-03 07:11:12 +0200
committerJan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>2015-11-06 13:00:02 +0100
commitb938cb902c3b5bca807a94b277672c64d6767886 (patch)
tree267bd1d61268865fa405b3e5a3027041f7f3a183 /man/sysusers.d.xml
parenta6bff4a7428b9539d85618e3c91fcb60be93f3fa (diff)
doc: correct punctuation and improve typography in documentation
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man/sysusers.d.xml b/man/sysusers.d.xml
index 11cb83388f..ca29486cc0 100644
--- a/man/sysusers.d.xml
+++ b/man/sysusers.d.xml
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ u root 0 "Superuser" /root</programlisting>
<term><varname>r</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Add a range of numeric UIDs/GIDs to the pool
to allocate new UIDs and GIDs from. If no line of this type
- is specified the range of UIDs/GIDs is set to some
+ is specified, the range of UIDs/GIDs is set to some
compiled-in default. Note that both UIDs and GIDs are
allocated from the same pool, in order to ensure that users
and groups of the same name are likely to carry the same
@@ -143,32 +143,32 @@ u root 0 "Superuser" /root</programlisting>
all system and group names with the underscore, and avoiding too
generic names.</para>
- <para>For <varname>m</varname> lines this field should contain
+ <para>For <varname>m</varname> lines, this field should contain
the user name to add to a group.</para>
- <para>For lines of type <varname>r</varname> this field should
+ <para>For lines of type <varname>r</varname>, this field should
be set to <literal>-</literal>.</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>ID</title>
- <para>For <varname>u</varname> and <varname>g</varname> the
- numeric 32bit UID or GID of the user/group. Do not use IDs 65535
+ <para>For <varname>u</varname> and <varname>g</varname>, the
+ numeric 32-bit UID or GID of the user/group. Do not use IDs 65535
or 4294967295, as they have special placeholder meanings.
Specify <literal>-</literal> for automatic UID/GID allocation
for the user or group. Alternatively, specify an absolute path
- in the file system. In this case the UID/GID is read from the
+ in the file system. In this case, the UID/GID is read from the
path's owner/group. This is useful to create users whose UID/GID
match the owners of pre-existing files (such as SUID or SGID
binaries).</para>
- <para>For <varname>m</varname> lines this field should contain
+ <para>For <varname>m</varname> lines, this field should contain
the group name to add to a user to.</para>
- <para>For lines of type <varname>r</varname> this field should
+ <para>For lines of type <varname>r</varname>, this field should
be set to a UID/GID range in the format
- <literal>FROM-TO</literal> where both values are formatted as
+ <literal>FROM-TO</literal>, where both values are formatted as
decimal ASCII numbers. Alternatively, a single UID/GID may be
specified formatted as decimal ASCII numbers.</para>
</refsect2>
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ u root 0 "Superuser" /root</programlisting>
<refsect2>
<title>Home Directory</title>
- <para>The home directory for a new system user. If omitted
+ <para>The home directory for a new system user. If omitted,
defaults to the root directory. It is recommended to not
unnecessarily specify home directories for system users, unless
software strictly requires one to be set.</para>
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ u root 0 "Superuser" /root</programlisting>
<para>Note that <command>systemd-sysusers</command> will do
nothing if the specified users or groups already exist, so
- normally there no reason to override
+ normally, there no reason to override
<filename>sysusers.d</filename> vendor configuration, except to
block certain users or groups from being created.</para>
</refsect1>