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From: Marian Cerny <jojo@matfyz.cz>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Mistake in Handbook, section 8.6.4 passwd
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>Number:         61628
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Mistake in Handbook, section 8.6.4 passwd
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 20 05:20:08 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:    Tue Jan 20 10:00:45 PST 2004
>Last-Modified:  Mon Feb 16 05:50:12 PST 2004
>Originator:     Marian Cerny
>Release:        5.1R
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD mrokarik 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun  5 02:55:42 GMT 2003     root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
In section 8.6.4 passwd of Handbook is written:
Users must type in ther original password before changing their password, to prevent an unauthorized person from changing their password when the user is away from their console.

I think that "... their password, to prevent ..." should be written without coma: "... their password to prevent ..."

I am not an English speaker, so I may be wrong. ;-) I just seems strange to me.
>How-To-Repeat:
See section 8.6.4 of the Handbook.
>Fix:
      
>Release-Note:
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From: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org>
To: Marian Cerny <jojo@matfyz.cz>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/61628: Mistake in Handbook, section 8.6.4 passwd
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:16:54 +0000

 On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 05:18:33AM -0800, Marian Cerny wrote:
 
 > Users must type in ther original password before changing their
 > password, to prevent an unauthorized person from changing their password
 > when the user is away from their console.
 >
 > I think that "... their password, to prevent ..." should be written
 > without coma: "... their password to prevent ..."
 
 Losing the comma would result in a grammatically correct, though
 unwieldy, sentence.  The easiest way to deal with is to move "before
 changing their password," to the beginning of the sentence.
 
 Ceri
 
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State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ceri 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jan 20 10:00:21 PST 2004 
State-Changed-Why:  
I reworded the sentence as in my followup.  Thanks for the submission. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=61628 

From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Ceri Davies <ceri@freebsd.org>
Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/61628: Mistake in Handbook, section 8.6.4 passwd
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:26:04 -0700 (MST)

 On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Ceri Davies wrote:
 
 >  > Users must type in ther original password before changing their
 >  > password, to prevent an unauthorized person from changing their password
 >  > when the user is away from their console.
 >
 >  Losing the comma would result in a grammatically correct, though
 >  unwieldy, sentence.  The easiest way to deal with is to move "before
 >  changing their password," to the beginning of the sentence.
 
 Still unwieldy, though.  This may be a little better:
 
   To prevent accidental or unauthorized changes, the original password
   must be entered before a new password may be set.
 
 (And "may be set" looks wrong, but it's late and I can't come up with
 anything else except "assigned", which also looks wrong...)
 
 -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
>Unformatted:
