applied Alex's small-edits.patch

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1961 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml b/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml
index 41acee519..48dc67b9d 100644
--- a/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ vipw</para></sect3>
 the last password change.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>chfn</title>
-<para>chfn changes user full name, office number, office extension, and home 
-phone number information for a user's account.</para></sect4>
+<para>chfn changes a user's full name and other information
+(office room number, office phone number, and
+home phone number).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>chpasswd</title>
 <para>chpasswd reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard 
@@ -93,18 +94,19 @@ users.</para></sect4>
 <para>passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pwck</title>
-<para>pwck verifies the integrity of the system authentication 
-information.</para></sect4>
+<para>pwck verifies the integrity of the password files.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pwconv</title>
-<para>pwconv converts to shadow passwd files from normal passwd 
-files.</para></sect4>
+<para>pwconv converts the normal password file
+to a shadowed password file.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pwunconv</title>
-<para>pwunconv converts from shadow passwd files to normal files.</para></sect4>
+<para>pwunconv converts a shadowed password file
+to a normal password file.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>sg</title>
-<para>sg executes command as a different group ID.</para></sect4>
+<para>sg sets the user's GID to that of the given group, or executes a
+given command as member of the given group.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>su</title>
 <para>su changes the effective user and group IDs to that of a given user.