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Description of problem:

(this was pointed out by Prentice Bisbal on the RHEL6 mailing list)

  'authconfig --help' shows different options than given in
  'man authconfig'.

  For example, 'authconfig --help' shows that there is a
  disable option for shadow:

    $ authconfig --help | grep shadow
     --enableshadow, --useshadow
                           enable shadowed passwords by default
     --disableshadow       disable shadowed passwords by default

  The '--disableshadow' option isn't mentioned in the man page
  at all.  There may be others.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  authconfig-6.1.4-6.el6.x86_64


Expected results:

  All options available in authconfig should be given in the man
  page.

The manual page explicitly states that it is not exhaustive. I do not see much benefit in duplicating all the text that is in the authconfig --help output in the manual page. The more complicated options that require more than one line of documentation are documented in the manual page.

I do not plan to exactly mirror all the options in the manual page.