Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

MFC r267090:

Correct the document date for last change.

Approved by: re (gjb)

MFC r266828:

Correct the description of characters allowed. Based on pw_checkname in
usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c. Modified version of patch submitted by
venture37.

Approved by: re (gjb)

MFC r237581:
Explicitly mention that setting the change and expiry times to zero is
equivalent to leaving the time unset. [1]

Wordsmith in the compat support section.

Use a full path to nologin(8) in the context of setting it as a user's shell,
keeping a separate cross-reference.

PR: docs/169354 [1]
Approved by: re (hrs), hrs (mentor)

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)

mdoc: drop redundant .Pp and .LP calls

They have no effect when coming in pairs, or before .Bl/.Bd

Add .Li mark-up to Hesiod, NIS, and nsswitch keywords so that they stand out
when the manpage is read via an advanced output device.

Add nsswitch.conf(5) xref to SEE ALSO as it's mentioned in the text.

Mark up text consistently.

Document the current practice of locking and disabling accounts
through passwd(5).

A single `*' character doesn't disable *ANY* form of authentication.
Make sure that this is clearly stated.

Prodded by: simon, Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>

Explain the use of `*' in master.passwd and that it's slightly
different from the use of `*' in /etc/passwd.

PR: docs/86234
Submitted by: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@above.proper.com>
MFC after: 1 week

Add xrefs to crypt(3) and pw(8) and add a warning about not manually
altering passwd related files.

PR: 74656
Submitted by: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> (original version)

Sort sections.

Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks and double whitespaces.

Login classes are not "unused."
Reference login.conf(5).

PR: 62830
Submitted by: Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd@over-yonder.net>

Add missing . to mandoc macro

PR: docs/47092
Submitted by: SUZUKI Koichi <koich@cac.co.jp>

mdoc(7) police: scheduled sweep.

Approved by: re

Fix formatting bogon.

Undelete FILES section (taken from RELENG_4), primarily to give the
location of the passwd and master.passwd files.

Submitted by: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>

master.passwd, not master.password

Submitted by: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>

yp(4) -> yp(8).

PR: docs/30797

mdoc(7) police: Fixed broken xrefs.

Removed whitespace at end-of-line; no content changes. I simply did
cd src/share; find man[1-9] -type f|xargs perl -pi -e 's/[ \t]+$//'

BTW, what editors are the culprits? I'm using vim and it shows
me whitespace at EOL in troff files with a thick blue block...

Reviewed by: Silence from cvs diff -b
MFC after: 7 days

mdoc(7) police: split punctuation characters + misc fixes.

mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.

Add nsswitch support. By creating an /etc/nsswitch.conf file, you can
configure FreeBSD so that various databases such as passwd and group can be
looked up using flat files, NIS, or Hesiod.

= Hesiod has been added to libc (see hesiod(3)).

= A library routine for parsing nsswitch.conf and invoking callback
functions as specified has been added to libc (see nsdispatch(3)).

= The following C library functions have been modified to use nsdispatch:
. getgrent, getgrnam, getgrgid
. getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid
. getusershell
. getaddrinfo
. gethostbyname, gethostbyname2, gethostbyaddr
. getnetbyname, getnetbyaddr
. getipnodebyname, getipnodebyaddr, getnodebyname, getnodebyaddr

= host.conf has been removed from src/etc. rc.network has been modified
to warn that host.conf is no longer used at boot time. In addition, if
there is a host.conf but no nsswitch.conf, the latter is created at boot
time from the former.

Obtained from: NetBSD

Use consistent markup for literals and quoted metasyntactic variables.
Left unfixed: `NIS' should be marked up as a tradename.

Spell `99%' correctly.

Fix spelling of `whose'.

Remove more single-space hard sentence breaks.

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$

Various man page cleanup:

- Sort xrefs
- FreeBSD.ORG -> FreeBSD.org
- Be consistent with section names as outlined in mdoc(7).
- Other misc mdoc cleanup.

PR: doc/13144
Submitted by: Alexey M. Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>

Fix poor heading format.

Submitted-by: Matthew Fuller <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
PR: docs/11271

Sort cross references.

misc. spelling and grammar gnits.

Correct the description of the last four fields.

PR: 6926
Submitted by: Josh Gilliam <josh@quick.net>

Removed misleading claim that login classes are no longer implemented.
Added Xref to pw(8).

Add login.conf(5) to "SEE ALSO".

ISSUES:
An example and better explansion on how to use login classes is needed
in both passwd.5 and login.conf.5.

Minor mdoc cleanup - don't use .Pa for non-pathname items.

Use the .Fx macro for FreeBSD references for releases prior to 2.0.
Use the .Tn macro for generic FreeBSD references. Cleanup other
formatting problems noticed while making the above changes.

Add some text regarding security issues when using a shell
script as the login shell. Closes PR# 2978.

Oops. I misread some commit mail - remove the blurb about comments
in passwd/group not being enabled by default.

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

Document comments.

Revert $FreeBSD$ back to $Id$

Update manpage; corrections, clarifications and login class (with xref).

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.

Sort cross references.

Minor formatting/style fixes.

Submitted by: Sandro Sigala <sandro@cat.local.net> as part of PR # 2134

Use the .Fx macro to specify FreeBSD version where appropriate.

Use the .Bx macro where appropriate.

Fix a bunch of spelling errors in a bunch of man pages.

Update this man page to reflect reality with respect to NIS and
document the proper way to set up NIS overrides in the password database.

Documented YP functionality, part II.

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r1638,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.

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