Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 90074
[PATCH] authconfig man page incorrect
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:26 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020607 Description of problem: This problem is actually present in all versions of Red Hat Linux back at least to Red Hat 7.2. The authconfig page contains incorrect and incomplete information on the command line options involved. I have a patch which at least gets everything right in the summary plus fixes some errors in the main part of the page. However, the page could be improved even further (it currently doesn't describe all of the command line options, and those that are described aren't always fully explained). It also still seems to provide some incorrect information. For example, --probe is suggested as a way of printing out the current configuration output, yet it prints nothing for me (authconfig --test --kickstart appears to dtrt). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.3.4-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man authconfig 2. Compare against popt option code in authconfig.c 3. Be amazed at the differences and omissions ;-) Additional info:
Created attachment 91466 [details] Patch that fixes at least some of the problems. The attached patch fixes the SYNOPSIS section completely, however there are more problems that could be addressed, see the initial bug report.
I've improved the man page a little bit. It should appear in the next devel release.