NetBSD Problem Report #36687

From mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz  Tue Jul 24 11:58:18 2007
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>Number:         36687
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       su man page out of date
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jul 24 12:00:01 +0000 2007
>Last-Modified:  Tue Jul 24 19:20:01 +0000 2007
>Originator:     Mark Davies
>Release:        NetBSD 4.99.18
>Organization:
Victoria University

>Environment:


System: NetBSD lap3.home.vuw.ac.nz 4.99.18 NetBSD 4.99.18 (MCS_LAPTOP.debug) #9: Tue May 29 21:28:17 NZST 2007 mark@lap3.home.vuw.ac.nz:/local/SAVE/build.obj/local/src/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/MCS_LAPTOP.debug i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	su manual page does not match current reality. The "-K" option, at
	least, does not exist and the description of the behaviour using
	Kerberos isn't correct.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Inspection.

>Fix:
	Not sure.  Take the current FreeBSD manual page?


>Audit-Trail:
From: jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, misc-bug-people@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/36687: su man page out of date
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:15:40 -0700

 On Nov 9, 12:07am, mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz wrote:

 } >Description:
 } 	su manual page does not match current reality. The "-K" option, at
 } 	least, does not exist and the description of the behaviour using
 } 	Kerberos isn't correct.

      By default, the option isn't there.  However, if somebody were to
 disable PAM and didn't disable Kerberos, then the option would appear.
 I'm pondering if the man page can be "conditionally compiled" so that
 it can match the actual code.

 }-- End of excerpt from mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz

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