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author | Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-05-24 15:09:23 +0000 |
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committer | Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-05-24 15:09:23 +0000 |
commit | 83bc6a110657328dea5039ffa37ea447a295cb2d (patch) | |
tree | 349525de2bc7a5da35f9c7d248a635c0cf6412b8 /usr.sbin/chkgrp/chkgrp.8 | |
parent | 2c8d8304079033cb1ea0c94784565ddad6c242c5 (diff) | |
download | src-83bc6a110657328dea5039ffa37ea447a295cb2d.tar.gz src-83bc6a110657328dea5039ffa37ea447a295cb2d.zip |
Add chkgrp, a small utility for checking for syntax errors in group
files.
PR: bin/1387
Suggested-by: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com
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svn path=/head/; revision=36332
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/chkgrp/chkgrp.8 b/usr.sbin/chkgrp/chkgrp.8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7d1c252cf718 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.sbin/chkgrp/chkgrp.8 @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Dag-Erling Coïdan Smørgrav +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer +.\" in this position and unchanged. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products +.\" derived from this software withough specific prior written permission +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES +.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. +.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, +.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT +.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, +.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY +.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT +.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF +.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $Id$ +.\" +.Dd May 5, 1998 +.Dt CHKGRP 8 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm chkgrp +.Nd check the syntax of the group file +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm chkgrp +.Op Ar groupfile +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm Chkgrp +scans the given file or, failing that, the system-wide group file for +errors. Specifically, it checks that every non-blank, non-comment +entry is composed of four colon-separated fields, that none of them +contains whitespace, and that the third field (the group ID) is +numeric. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr getgrent 3 , +.Xr group 5 +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +For each error found, +.Nm chkgrp +will print an error message containins the name of the file being +scanned and the line number on which the error was found. Otherwise no +output is produced. +.Pp +.Nm Chkgrp +returns EX_DATAERR if errors were found in the group file, and EX_OK +otherwise. +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +command appeared in +.Tn FreeBSD +3.0 +.Sh AUTHORS +.Nm Chkgrp +and this manual page were written by +.An Dag-Erling Coïdan Smørgav Aq des@FreeBSD.ORG . +.Sh BUGS +Should check fields more thoroughly for allowed / disallowed +characters, and the range of the group ID. |