There is quite some value (in terms of readability and user
expectations) if consistent names are used for the sections
within manual pages. This patch is one of a series to bring
about this consistency.
But, let's make sure that the section is consistently titled
across pages. Currently we have ENVIRONMENT (many) or ENVIRONMENT
VARIABLES (3). Let's standardize on ENVIRONMENT (which is also
what is suggested in man-pages(7)).
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
There is quite some value (in terms of readability and user
expectations) if consistent names are used for the sections
within manual pages. This patch is one of a series to bring
about this consistency.
In the Linux man-pages project, I long ago did away with the
AUTHOR(S) section, but I realize some projects like to keep this.
But, let's make sure that the section is consistently titled
across pages. Currently we have AUTHOR (47) or AUTHORS (41).
Let's standardize on the latter (which is also what is
suggested in man-pages(7)).
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
In the majority of pages, pathnames are formatted as Italic,
which is the norm. However, there are several cases where they
are formatted as bold. This patch fixes a number of those
exceptions.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.man-pages@gmail.com>
Some installations and distributions don't use a root account password
for security reasons and use sudo instead. In that case, asking for the
password makes no sense, and it is not even considered as valid as it's just
"*" or "!".
In these cases --force is required to just start a root shell and no
ask for password.
I don't think it's a good idea to automatically start root shell when
locked account is detected. It's possible that the machine is on
public place and for example Ubuntu uses root account disabled by
default (and also Fedora when installed by yum/dnf without anaconda).
The --force option forces admins to think about it...
The distro maintainers can also use --force in their initscripts or
systemd emergency.service if they believe that promiscuous setting is
the right thing for the distro.
Addresses: https://bugs.debian.org/326678
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Import the source and manpage of sulogin. Only the selinux #ifdef is
changed to match our autotool setup.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Sébastien Helleu
Karel Zak
Benno Schulenberg
Ondrej Oprala
Sami Kerola
Dave Reisner