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Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2014 21:30:59 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: cannot display man page for /bin/passwd
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On Aug  6 21:21, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>=20
> >> When I try to display the man page for /bin/passwd, the man page for
> >> the openssl passwd subcommand is displayed.
> >>=20
> >> It appears that both the package containing /bin/passwd, and the
> >> openssl package place the passwd.1.gz file in the /usr/share/man/man1
> >> directory, so that only the man page from the most recently installed
> >> package is displayed.
>=20
> > No, the Cygwin passwd tool has no man page.
>=20
> That's sad. Can we change it?

Would you like to take over maintainance of the cygwin-doc package?
It's orphaned and in desperate need of an active maintainer.

> > The documentation is only in the User's Guide:
> > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#passwd
>=20
> While reading the page, I've noticed a discrepancy in options synopsis
> and further description of the tool operation.
> Namely, options --minage, --maxage parameter spelled as "DAYS", while dow=
n the
> text they are referred to as MINDAYS and MAXDAYS.
> I suggest changing the options description to match the text, as that it'=
ll
> make more sense.

Good idea, fixed in CVS.

> Also, the paragraph "All operations affecting the current user" is missin=
g a
> "$" sign in reference to environment variable LOGONSERVER.

No, that's deliberate at this point.

> The phrase "to enter a password which" is probably missing a comma.

Hmm, not sure.  The English language is pretty lazy in terms of
punctuation characters.

> Other question is relevance of a requirement "to run cygserver as a servi=
ce
> under the LocalSystem account" for modern times.

That's ok.  The cygserver service typically runs as SYSTEM.

> Slightly unrelated question. I've noticed, that if a paragraph in source =
file
> have line break after a period, the page is rendered with two spaces betw=
een
> a period and first letter of next sentence, even though there's only one
> character (a linefeed) exists. No stray spaces, no CR's. Is this intended?

Yes, for the English language.  See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing#French_and_English=
_spacing


Thanks,
Corinna

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